let’s make like a tree. and leaves

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let’s make like a tree. and leaves, is a project developed by Elisa Bertaglia during a period of residency in the spaces offered by Dolomiti Contemporanee in the village of Casso, whose aim is to create a symbolic relationship of exchange between the artist and the inhabitants of the village itself. In the first few days of residence 10 drawings of the series “Leaves of grass” were realized. The title references the main work of Walt Whitman, that the American poet composed through an organic process, continuing to integrate it throughout his life. Each of the drawings was cut in half. Each one of the ten families residing in Casso received one of the halves, as an invite to take part in the final event for the end of the period of residence.

On the 14th of August at 18:00, the second half of the work will be given to each of the families that will choose to take part in the parting event in the Nuovo Spazio di Casso. The drawing will, then, be recomposed once again, inside a single frame, keeping the mark of its previous division in two well in sight, a caesura which symbolically hints to the relational nature and, in a larger sense, to the duality of the artistic experience.

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