In the summer of 2005 Pino, la Morte e il Pelmo (Pino, the Death and the Pelmo Mountain) become
Camminarte a path in the alpine shelters of the Val Fiorentina, and more, where the tables are permanently exposed.
Shelter: a name, a synthesis, a total. For us is the small house dreamt in the flatland , down in the buzzing beehives in the city, seen an seen in dream a thousand times trough the veil of desire and memory; and more desired when more it is known by long familiarity, so every time it seems that a kind of magnetic force attracts up on the sides, with the illusion that it awaits upon one of the known rocks, near that firn, out the rocky part of that glacier, like a person alive, like a beloved person , to greet us. Shelter, for us, is the small house that reminds the little things that may move a smile or a joy beat. It will be a frugal table at the light of an oil lamp or of a candle, it will be the fire cracking in the kitchen stove; it will be the same cooking, the dish washing, for certain is that what in another place is considered a servant mark, up there it becomes a wonderful thing, and get the nice taste of a prize. Also to sleep dressed, into a simple blanked, it is satisfying».
EUGENIO FASANA, Finestre sui monti, in "Rivista mensile" del CAI, 1936
Val Fiorentina "Here is the place to stop for a while, to look at one of the most beautiful sites in the heart of the Alps : a valley all green, all covered with woods, lawns, hamlets widespread; all encircled into gigantic dolomite mountains, naked with the most risky and fantastic mountains extracted, one would say in white marble. It is really a charm (...) and there right on a monstrous side, the Monte Pelmo, which airy elevates, alone, like saying: I am self-sufficient".
ANTONIO STOPPANI Il bel paese
THE PAINTINGS IN THE SHELTERS
A small art gallery in altitude. Moreover, widespread (or gathered?) in eleven stages. CAMMINARTE is a path of drawings telling the growing process of a magic boy, Pino, around the Pelmo.
A circular walk, a pilgrimage in the circularity of the time. CAMMINARTE is an homage to Monte Pelmo, extraordinary crossroads of tales, legends, edges, dihedrons and ledges. Of rocks and persons. A mountain with a distinctive personality, one place aside between the great crags of the Dolomites. A homage of a lover of this mountain, Luisa Rota Sperti, grown up between the limestone of the Grigne, small sisters of the great dolomitic peaks. CAMMINARTE is a walking from shelter to shelter. From shelters that embrace the mountains with the net of their paths to others that look at it from distance, caressing it with the glance. The slow time of the rest in the shelters invites to discover in the paintings, plenty of signs, the elements of the Alp that little Pino crosses: the fogs, the creeks, the wood in the fire, the rocks, until the end of the painted tale, flying with angel wings and of butterflies toward the Pelmo, the throne of God, that like the shelter receives, up so near the sky. CAMMINARTE is a game-fairytale, a gift for children first approaching their mountain walks. The Pro Loco Val Fiorentina and the Angelini Foundation has made possible the making of this little dream.
SHELTERS AND PICTURES
PINO, LA MORTE E IL PELMO (PINO, THE DEATH AND THE PELMO MOUNTAIN):
TALE IN 11 PLATES FROM DAWN TO SUNSET TO A NEW DAWN, AROUND THE MOUNTAIN
1. PINO - Rifugio San Marco (CAI Venezia) 1.823 m
2. CARÉGON DU DIAU - Rifugio Croda da Lago (CAI Cortina d'Ampezzo) 2.046 m
3. L'UOMO DI LEGNO - Rifugio Città di Fiume (CAI Fiume) 1.918 m
4. MAMMA MARTORA - Rifugio Averau (S. Siorapaes ) 2.413 m
5. MAMMA MARMOTTA - Rifugio Nuvolau (CAI Cortina d'Ampezzo) 2.575 m
6. MAMMA SCOIATTOLO - Rifugio Passo Staulanza (Marco Sala) 1.766 m
7. MAMMA PIPISTRELLO - Rifugio San Sebastiano (B. Cordella) 1.601 m
8. MAMMA CAMOSCIO - Rifugio A. Tissi (CAI Belluno) 2.250 m
9. ALI NEL CIELO - Rifugio A.M. Sonino al Coldai (CAI Venezia) 2.132 m
10. TRONO DI DIO - Rifugio Venezia A.M. De Luca (CAI Venezia) 1.946 m
11. MARIETTA - Rifugio Casera Bosconero (CAI Val di Zoldo) 1.457 m
