Fort Bard is dedicating an exhibition to Carlo Mollino (Turin, 1905–1973), one of the most versatile architects and designers of modern architecture, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The exhibition Carlo Mollino. Sloping Landscapes. Photographs by Armin Linke (Carlo Mollino. Paesaggi inclinati. Fotografie di Armin Linke), curated by Luciano Bolzoni, will be open in the halls of the Mortai Opera from 17 November 2023 to 18 February 2024.
Mollino is one of the Italian architects most recognized abroad. He is credited with many waves of multidisciplinary activity ranging from architecture and design to photography, literature, and set design, crossing original sports activities that focus on dynamics and a search for speed, such as skiing, aerobatics and car racing with futuristic prototypes. A man of the Alps, a skier and builder of cable cars and holiday residences, for Mollino, the Alps mean the Aosta Valley in particular, a region he frequented starting in the 1920s. Here, he initially studied traditional buildings and later built the Casa del Sole and Furggen cable car in Breuil-Cervinia, the Casa Capriata in Gressoney-Saint-Jean (later rebuilt), the Rascard Garelli in Ayas, the Casa Olivero in La Thuile and the Casa Collettiva in Aosta. He authored important public works such as the Teatro Regio and the Palazzo degli Affari, both of which are in Turin.
The exhibition consists of a survey of Mollino’s works, captured in photographs taken by photographer and director Armin Linke from 2006 to 2023. Throughout his career, Linke has used his images to explore the relationships between man and the gradual transformations that technological advances have brought to populated environments. The survey does not intend to be based on the simple exhibition of photographs, however, but to instil a reflection on the relevance of Mollini’s poetics in terms of architecture: from the social function of ‘building well’, especially in the mountains, to the same non-static idea of tradition that becomes a lush river and generator of new life through his work.
The exhibition starts with the idea that photography is investigation. Mollino’s buildings therefore constitute an important collection of data and annotations capable of reading a territory. Linke reflects on the profound idea of photography as a moment to interpret the transformation of reality. From this point of view, the architect’s and photographer’s approaches to interpretation coincide.
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Weekdays: 10am | 6 pm
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Full-price: € 8.00
Concessions: over 65: € 7.00; 19-25 years old: € 3.00
Free admission: 0-18 years old
