Dalla Mongolia a San Vigilio di Marebbe. Scultori: Amgalan Tsevegmid, Chimeddorj Shagdarjav.
Oriente e Occidente. Snow Festival – 20. Internationales Schneeskulpturen-Festival.
Giovane scultrice all’opera. www.sanvigilio.com
Relax orientale.
Sulla montagna di ghiaccio.
Gli artisti della Repubblica Ceca all’opera. Dasa Strosova, Lenka Sykorova, Stepan Raichl.
L’abbraccio del mondo. Highschool of art Ortisei.
In Iran tutti si mettono ad usare elettrodomestici per mandare in cortocircuito le linee elettriche quando il dittatore parla al popolo. Schirin stira è il titolo dell’opera. “Schirin and the electric iron strategy”.
“Il cesto degli uomini di neve”. 20° Festival a internazionale Sculture di neve.San Vigilio di Marebbe.
“La melodia dell’anniversario”. Scultori: Zigmundus Vilnis, Inars Zingniks, Aldemar Vilnis dallaLettonia. Primo premio della giuria.
“20 years together in the clouds”. San Vigilio di Marebbe. 18.-20.01.2010.
Skiing. Glamorous pastime or environmental murder? Natural sport or man-made artifice? Class-less fun or overprivileged princes poncing around Klosters? Lois Hechenblaikner’s wonderful satirical study of ski culture, subtitled “An Alpine Story”, juxtaposes images from two very different milieus: the old, “traditional” rural Austrian Tyrol and the brasher, more consumerist culture of today. The black-and-white photographs, taken by agricultural engineer Armin Kniely between the 1930s and 1960s, present the past – to our modern eyes – as something honest and rather charming.
Hechenblaikner’s colour images point up the changes: golfers have replaced agricultural workers, ugly signage has replaced rough wood fencing, the Happy Chicken fast food snack bar has replaced happy chickens running round a grassy paddock. The composition is spot-on, leading us first to the opposing subjects and then to the wider landscape to raise the question: is this acceptable? Skiing makes Austria and the other hilly nations of Europe millions of euros every year, and skiers seem to adore their pastime too much for us to ban it.
But the cost of their leisure activity is not just a few bare mountainsides. Hechenblaikner’s work, while witty and always good-humoured, makes us wonder if there isn’t some other, less garish, and greener, way to get on to the slopes? And if not, perhaps the ski season should become a thing of the past – some time before all the snows have melted away. Chris Moss - Time Out
Milena e Luca. Rifugio Fanes. www.rifugiofanes.com
Alpe di Fanes.
Valle di Fanes.
Cima nove.
Trofeo di caccia.
Furcia dai fers.
www.lavarella.it
Furcia dai fers.
Si scende a valle con lo slittino.
