The Monferrato area will host the 2024 edition of Panorama, the widespread exhibition conceived by ITALICS – an institutional network of ancient, modern and contemporary art galleries – which since 2021, on an annual basis, has been connecting architecture, art and landscape with the area and its communities.
Curated by Carlo Falciani, from 4 to 8 September 2024, Monferrato Panorama will see its exhibition path divided between vineyards, castles and parish churches, living for 5 days in the villages of Camagna Monferrato, Vignale Monferrato, Montemagno Monferrato and Castagnole Monferrato and thus building an original story capable of bringing together ancient, modern and contemporary in an itinerary that will lead, once again, to the discovery of an extraordinary corner of Italy.
The area is the one that extends between the provinces of Alessandria and Asti up to the foot of the Ligurian Apennines, between the Langhe and the Roero and the historic Lombard region of Lomellina, a landscape of hills, where the land and the peasant tradition make up a unique heritage of culture, history and traditions also recognised by theUNESCO. A context to be discovered slowly with artistic itineraries ranging from Romanesque to contemporary routes with site-specific installations and public art, which make it an open-air museum.
With the participation of 62 gallerie of ITALICS and with contemporary works – many site specific or produced ad hoc – but also twentieth-century works, and great Renaissance masterpieces, Panorama Monferrato is inspired by the principles of La Civil Conversation, a text written by Stefano Guazzo and published in 1574, which became a European best seller at the time in Tudor England as in Montaigne’s France and which shows how some ideas born in Monferrato were fundamental for Europe between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In an imagined dialogue between a man suffering from melancholy, which deprived him of all social relationships after a long hospital stay due to a pandemic, and a doctor friend, Guazzo demonstrated in particular how a community could only live if it was capable of building a civil conversation – within the family, between generations and social classes, between citizens and foreigners – to dissolve conflicts, placing dialogue at the center of the ethical development of man and society.
The contemporary visitor of Panorama makes his way between Countryside Monferrato, Vignale Monferrato, Montemagno Monferrato and Castagnole Monferrato to symbolize a path of meditation that starts from daily contrasts to reach a level of spirituality, even secular, favored by art. Like chapters of a single story, in each of the four countries a theme develops, transversal to the eras, useful for completing the journey. In Camagna Monferrato, the theme Work and Roots focuses on work, the root of gestures and suffering but also an expression of the territory, placing attention on the dual soul, agricultural and industrial, of many places such as Monferrato, which over time have undergone even violent transformations. In Vignale Monferrato, Portrait and identity develops the portrait as a way of crystallizing, expressing and introducing into history the identity of a person or a community, representing their thoughts and aspirations. In Montemagno Monferrato the theme Transience and death demonstrates how, since the Renaissance, the awareness of death has had a constant presence in the representation of initiatory journeys and, finally, in Castagnole Monferrato, Sacredness of arteven secular, exalts the possibility of estrangement from everyday life in favor of contemplation.
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