April 2021
Tomaso Clavarino and Patrizio Anastasi, Ballad Of Woods And Wounds curated by Studio Faganel
The Monferrato and Roero Woods, the limits imposed by confinement, the exploration of oneself and the natural environment, in a closed dialogue between the photographs of Tomaso Clavarino and the illustrations of Patrizio Anastasi, which confront each other, resemble each other, and overlap.
Ballad Of Woods And Wounds is a stream of consciousness, an investigation into pure places lived during a period of tension and disorientation, namely the lockdown in Italy, and over a defined period of time which, with little margin for error, runs from 9 March to 19 May 2020. Both artists, forced into social isolation in an environment of little to no anthropization, had the opportunity to redefine their gazes, limiting interpersonal exchanges and movement.
A short and intense journey of discovery, a reflection on society and contemporary living, a trace of a unique, perhaps unrepeatable time.
The artworks of Clavarino and Anastasi interweave, they talk to each other, as if they had been developed together. Clavarino’s photographs are a personal and intimate narration of an inner tension, which speaks of his roots, of his relationship with a place that is important to him and full of memories. Anastasi’s illustrations are a reflection on the exploration of the limit and one’s own limits, on the wait that allows one to focus on body and mind by creating a bridge, a connection, between the human being and the Nature that surrounds him.
Ballad of Woods And Wounds is a sort of country ballad, in which you can breathe the earth, the smell of the forest, and where an almost melancholic stillness provides the backdrop to a broader reflection on the very essence of our nature.
Books selection
By Studio Faganel

Tomaso Clavarino, Patrizio Anastasi,
Ballad of Woods and Wounds,
2020
Paul Cox,
Design & Art,
2019
Luigi Ghirri,
Atlante,
1998
Aby Warburg,
IL RITUALE DEL SERPENTE. UNA RELAZIONE DI VIAGGIO,
1998
Mario Cresci,
MARIO CRESCI. SEGNI MIGRANTI,
2019
AA. VV.,
GLI ULTRAUOMINI,
2019
Joan Fontcuberta,
Contravisiones,
2021
Geert Goiris,
WORLD WITHOUT US,
2019
Raymond Meeks,
ciprian honey cathedral,
2020
Terri Weifenbach, Des oiseaux,
2019
Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi,
L’ARCHITETTURA DEGLI ALBERI,
2018
Angelo Vignali,
Flattened in Time and Space,
2020
Gary Green,
The River Is Moving / The Blackbird Must be Flying,
2020
Karianne Bueno,
DOUG’S CABIN,
2019
Francesca Cao,
Temporary Life,
2020
Linn Phyllis Seeger,
You I Everything Else,
2020
Masako Tomiya,
KITO,
2017
Joel Van Audenhaege,
PHOTOGRAPHIC FIELDS,
2018
Daniel Reuter,
Providencia,
2020
Giulia Iacolutti,
CASA AZUL (NORMAL EDITION),
2019
Giulia Iacolutti,
CASA AZUL (SPECIAL EDITION),
2019
Alessandro Ruzzier,
CONTINUO INFINITO PROVVISORIO,
2019
Roberto Kusterle,
ECHO,
2019
Sergio Scabar,
OSCURA CAMERA,
2019
Roberto Kusterle,
Cartacei,
2020Hours and Infos
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