The cycle, adapted on the main Dolomites peaks, is an enquiry about the connection between man-death-mountain. The alpinists that appear, generally by themselves, lived with that mountain some extremely meaningful moments of their existence.
All these histories are inspired to Dino Buzzati's obituaries published on the "Corriere della Sera" newspaper, dedicated to these men, but above all to his magic relationship to the mountains..
In detail:
DINO BUZZATI - LO SCHIARA
Dino Buzzati journalist, artist, painter, writer, "art teller", alpinist.
"... Do you know why I love alpinism? Yes, the pure joy to win a passage, the great silence, the mystery of a ravine, the perfection of a dihedral, yes, the juice, i.e. The salt, beyond the fear, the wonderful victory upon fear.... but the secret is the victory upon the daily routine, to see beyond the horizon, up, up to the moon." (from "I miei Buzzati"
by Rolly Marchi)
PAUL PREUSS - SASSOLUNGO SASSO PIATTO
Paul Preuss Paul Preuss the father of free climbing, in his own more than a thousand ascents always refused any artificial help. He was a witty and elegant writer with Emmy Eisenberg at his side “...an ideal partner, light as a feather ..."
TITA PIAZ - CATINACCIO
Tita Piaz "The devil of the Dolomites... a hot head, an anarchist, some times overexcited..."
A master of short but hard climbing, classified between the difficult and the impossible.
In his own backpack, Satana the chum.
EMILIO COMICI - SORAPIS AL DITO DI DIO
Emilio Comici "Between the romantic alpinists he is the most romantic of all...", is search of the adoration of Beauty identified in the purer and more straight line tracked on the wall. The small figure of Bruna Bernardini (1913-1932) in the fog.
ATTILIO TISSI - LE TRE CIME DI LAVAREDO
Attilio Tissi A great man, a passionate and partial alpinist, a chosen person in the sixth degree kingdom
"... a man of few words and he was not expecting anyone speaking about him."
Here, with his wife Mariola at Lavaredo's, where he fall.
ANGELO DIBONA - TOFANE
The Guide Angelo Dibona "The prince of the mountain" for his climbing in his fifty years of alpine life, goes from his Dolomites to the other great spaces of the Alps and he conquers them.
ANDREA OGGIONI - CINQUE TORRI
Andrea Oggioni He died in the terrible retreat of the Central Pillar of Freney of the Monte Bianco
"... destroyed by blizzard and intense cold until he surrendered..." it is his image of alpine history, but he did so many things before.
SEVERINO CASARA - MARMAROLE
Severino Casara who sang Emilio Comici's climbing:
"... he was a Vicentine lawyer with the ascetic face of a mystic."
Director, writer, a teller of little histories and mountain legends of an epic alpine world, of which he was an active part
ETTORE ZAPPAROLI - LATEMAR
Ettore Zapparoli musician, writer, alpinist.
He disappeared between the loneliness of one of the wider European mountain wall.
"... they considered him as the artist, the outlaw, the bohemian, an adult Peter Pan, an XIX person born one hundred years after".
Each of the characters and of the places that have contributed to tell Casimiro's history has left a trace, little or big, stressed or more discreet in the tale, mixing her history to that of the protagonist of the biography. In the end making true John Donne's sentence, put by Hemingway on the door of one of the books of my adolescence:
"No man is an Island, entire of itself. (.) Therefore,
send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee".
In detail:
CASIMIRO FERRARI
WALTER BONATTI
CARLO MAURI (BIGIO)
RICCARDO CASSIN
GIUSEPPE ALIPPI (DET)
BENVENUTO LARITTI
Plates from the cycle Sass Cavall - Giuseppe "Det" Alippi tra storia e leggenda.
(Sass Cavall - Giuseppe "Det" Alippi between history and legend.)
5 plates (pencils on different grain and thickness cardboards)
Sasso Cavallo: A piece of nature, that with time changed into culture. A totem with his people (not necessarily the ones born at his feet but the ones that have been attracted for mysterious reasons), its priests, its singers, the elite (the prince, the knights...), the fairs and, above all, the only one that acquired the permit to relation himself in an intimate and secret way with the rocky obelisk, the Great Wizard, Det Alippi. A limestone monument, good to make legends and to feed myths. To make thinking fly, entwist reflections and give long sights and deep thoughts to its followers.
(from the foreword by Roberto Mantovani)
