Exhibition > Le nevi di Mario Rigoni Stern

This exhibition traces the special relationship that Asiago writer Mario Rigoni Stern had with snow in its many forms—the snow of his childhood, the snow of war, the snow of the long Asiago winters—and his unique photographer’s instinct for capturing both it and the mountains.

As photographer Herbert List wrote, “Photography is the art of reduction: a preference for detail over totality, a sharp, concise shape over a confused whole, a symbol over the description of a situation or an action. Less is almost always more”.

This concept of photography has been brought to life in Nevi (Snows) by Adriano Tomba, a collection that commemorates the memory of Rigoni Stern, whose life and experience were influenced by snow in its many guises.

The exhibition is rounded off by an interesting selection of rare foreign and Italian editions of Rigoni Stern’s works, on loan from the collection of scholar Giuseppe Mendicino. Also included is the video Ciao sergente! (Hello, Sergeant!) by the Augusto Murer Museum, Falcade (Belluno).

The exhibition is sponsored by the TrentoFilmFestival, Gruppo ITAS Assicurazioni (Trento), Galleria Foto-Forum (Bolzano), the City of Valdagno, and the Lions Club (Valle dell’Agno).

Adriano Tomba started his career as a photographer in 1982 with shots of the Little Dolomites in the Italian regions of Veneto and Trentino; since then he has dealt mainly with photographing mountain areas, but has also been involved with a range of other subjects. “His photographs,” wrote Giuseppe Garimoldi, “tell of the mountains’ extraordinary complexity. With the care of a lover, he traces the marks that the labours of formation have left on the body of the mountains, the beauty of their dazzling horizons, the poetry of the snow and the riches of nature. A hunter of wonders, he dwells upon the mountains of shepherds and mountaineers, upon the marks that reveal human presence and the vast shapes that have been sculpted over thousands of years. ”Adriano Tomba has exhibited in Valdagno, Vicenza, Padova, Belluno, Trento, Bolzano, Mantova, Cuneo and Palermo.

Adriano Tomba’s photographs can be viewed at the MontagnaLibri exhibition area in Piazza Fiera.
Open: Thursday 29 April from 6 pm to 8 pm. From 30 April to 9 May from 10 am to 8 pm