During the summer, Dr Igor Stramignoni spent time in Sils-Maria, a village in the Alps where Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Marcel Proust, Alberto Moravia, Jean Cocteau, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Paul Celan, Marc Chagall, Roman Vishniac, Claudio Abbado, and many other poets, artists and intellectuals have gathered since the 19th century, and where Friedrich Nietzsche conceived the Eternal Return during the first of his numerous visits between 1883 and 1888.
While in Sils-Maria, Dr Stramignoni had the opportunity to collaborate with the exhibition Alpenfliessen - Von der Veränderung der Landschaft (Flowing Alps - On the Transformation of the Landscape) hosted by the Andrea Robbi Stiftung and highlighting the disastrous effects of climate change on human and non-human forms of life. Igor contributed to the delivery and dissemination of the project’s central message by helping the organisers to shape the conceptual and visual presentation of some of its key themes and objects.
The exhibition begins with the multiple ongoing transformations of alpine natural spaces, accelerated by rising temperatures. Works of contemporary art, exhibits from historical collections, and the thoughts and memories of the inhabitants and visitors of this world-renown corner of the world, address the fragility of nature, even of huge masses such as mountains and glaciers, and remind us of our responsibility towards our planet and future generations.
To learn more about the project, visit Sils Museum.