IL SUO BUIO SPECIALE / ITS SPECIAL DARKNESS BY MATTIA BALSAMINI AND PIETRO MINTO

September 24, 2022 – January 6, 2023

Il suo buio speciale / Its Special Darkness is Mattia Balsamini and Pietro Minto’s art project that deepens a desire, already established with Alessandro Calabrese’s residency, to create a dialogue with the territory, in relation to ideas surrounding identity. Mattia Balsamini and Pietro Minto, via thirteen landscape photographs and thirteen individual portraits, embark on a path of research on the identity of the Northeastern territory and, through their investigation, tell the story of a region that has undergone a profound cultural and social transformation over the last fifty years, also through the dialogue with professionals and Venetian excellences who distinguish themselves in humanistic or scientific fields. The following profiles and landscape photographs taken by Balsamini become – side by side with Minto’s words – a tool through which to enter into dialogue with the territory and portray its history: a place that has always been characterised by the competitive logics of making, of producing, and that today, having exhausted the possibilities of exploiting material resources alone, must transform sweat-based work into another kind of commitment, giving new and legitimate dignity to “thinking”.

The exhibition Il suo buio speciale / Its Special Darkness will remain installed in the spaces of Villa Filanda Antonini until Jan. 8, 2023. The villa is open to the public by reservation Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. To reserve your tour, write to: hello@vfa.art.