All the wind that blows
Arco | Galleria Civica G. Segantini
12 october - 1 december 2013

Curated by di Veronica Caciolli, Denis Isaia, Federico Mazzonelli
In collaboration with Mart Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

This project is the result of a conceptual operation which began in 2008 and which consists of the documentation of all the winds that blow around the world, pieced together through a painstaking study, cross-referencing both scientific sources and traditional names. Often linked to popular imagery, winds have no material nature but are characterised by their physical force. Being air, wind is not visible directly. What we see are its consequent phenomena. In fact, the main aim of the project lies in the creation of a sort of specific portrait for each and every wind. The first stage of this process entails going to the places where the effects of the winds is manifested most intensely and creating a series of monoliths with the earth to be found there. These monoliths, each different in terms of consistency and colouring, is then left to dry out naturally in situ, thus being exposed to a given wind for a certain period of time, undergoing all its effects. At the end of this period, the sculptures each take on different characteristics, on the basis of how the wind itself wears the earth away. On some of them, this erosion will be more visible, while on others it might even be invisible. The final result will be absolutely unforeseeable and unrepeatable. These figures will remain there like just as many witnesses. Witnesses to their own experience.

At the time of writing, the cataloguing process includes around 140 winds: each of these has been associated with a landscape, reproduced using copperplate engraving. The exhibition at the Galleria Civica G. Segantini constitutes a new stage in this potentially endless work in progress. The artist has placed a series of monoliths in various areas around Lake Garda in order to herald some of the many winds that blow along its shores and across its waters: the Ora, the Peler, the Ponal, the Ander, the Vinessa, the Montes, the Bali and the Gardesana. Other winds, which so far have not been included in the cataloguing process, include the Boaren or Boarno, the Pezzocchero, the Vicentina, the Fasanella, the Toscolano, the Suer, the Sancarlino and the Avreser. They escaped documentation perhaps because they are inexistent or perhaps because escaping is an intrinsic part of the nature of winds.

Alessandro Piangiamore Born in Enna, Sicily, in 1976. He has a number of solo shows to his name in both public and private institutions, such as the GAMeC in Bergamo and the Fondazione Brodbeck in Catania, as well as in various galleries such as the Magazzino and the Paolo Bonzano in Rome, and the Tiziana De Caro in Salerno. His group shows include that at the 20^th Biennial of Sèlestat, curated by Marc Bembekof and Julien Fonsaq (2013); Re-generation curated by Ilaria Gianni and Maria Alicata (MACRO, Rome, 2012); Smeared with the Gold of Opulent Sun, curated by Chris Sharp (Nomas Foundation, Rome 2012); Mutiny Seemed a Probability (Fondazione Giuliani, Rome 2011); T2 – Le 50 Lune di Saturno, curated by Daniel Birnbaum (Rivoli Castle, Rivoli 2008).