Festival Mistero dei Monti - Marco Martalar

Artistic Trekking between Pinzolo and Carisolo

ALPINE FEARS IN COMPARISON
with the local Cultural Animators and the special participation of Marco Martalar, “the sculptor of Vaia”.

The original juxtaposition of two tragedies, the ancient one of the plague, which finds iconographic representation, up to the late Middle Ages, in the Dance of Death, a powerful visual reminder to exorcise the fear of death, and that of the Vaia Storm, the greatest forest disaster in modern Italian history. A wandering reflection on the fragilities of man and the fragility of nature, two sides of the same coin, accompanied by the cathartic power of art: on one side the formidable frescoes by Simone II Baschenis, masterpieces of 16th-century alpine art, immortalized on the walls of the little churches of Pinzolo and Carisolo; on the other, the captivating story of a contemporary artist, Marco Martalar, who managed to generate beauty from a tragedy, using reclaimed wood from the Vaia Storm for his monumental sculptures depicting animals and fantastical creatures.