I SALMI DI SANTIAGO. PATER NOSTER
From May 24 to June 15, 2025
Castello dal Verme – Zavattarello
Free entrance
A journey into the soul, Giovanni Ingino – A medley of fifteen photographs spanning four years (2016-2019), carefully chosen among the over three thousand shots along two routes: The French Way (12 pictures)1 and The Portuguese Way (3 pictures)2 with a caption each, from David’s Psalms. Unpretentious images of sheer simplicity: not a recall aid of the physical journey but instead a spiritual research path, a journey into the soul. Hence, the collection is not meant to be a travelogue – the places are nearly all unknown, neither churches nor cathedrals are to be found, no glimpses of religious ceremonies or festivals and no “postcard effect”: only a plain black and white, witnessing a personal faith path through the contemplation of beauty in the works of the Lord to remind ourselves what mankind is in its relationship with the Creation; the human figure, actually, appears only once (a little girl playing with a dog) as, to put it in Giovanni Comisso’s words: “The first sign of God’s hands is in the landscape and I can accept that some human beings with marked sensibility, lost in the middle of the most mesmerizing natural scenery, claim they have seen divine signs. The other sign is the human being, but the human being shapes itself and grows through its relationship with nature: it is a mirror of the surrounding landscape.”
(Translation of the text, including the quotation, by Roberta Magnaghi)
Lino Budano – A relevant artist, Lino Budano portrays the human condition by establishing an ambiguous tension between his refined language and the subjects he depicts. In his works, human figures and everyday objects appear isolated in their own world, immersed in unsettling and dreamlike atmospheres. Budano draws inspiration for his work sometimes from found images, but in most cases from photographs taken by himself. Regardless of their origin, his artworks depict a subjective reality that evokes an ambiguous and indistinct space and time. As the artist emphasizes, “Our body transforms, what happens within us is beyond our control, anguish urges an expression to which we do not know how to respond. External influences are becoming increasingly technologically pressing, the synthetic influences the natural” (organic versus artificial, the underlying codes, binary language with or against genetic language). The constant stake: humanity. Moreover, the artist has also explored cinematic language. His short films are built upon drawings, paintings, screensculptures, and videosculptures that seem staged or even become protagonists in a performance in the form of tableaux vivants. Within them, the contrast between everyday reality and a splendid or dark parallel dimension is present. Through the slow movement of the camera, Budano observes the rituals of human alienation or brings to life intense moments of suspension, focusing the viewer’s attention on a specific element—“life beyond.”
1 Twelve like the Tribes of Israel, the chosen number, the number that signifies the Lord’s choice. In a wider sense, it is the number designating the people of God as a whole, in the Old and New Testament.
2 Three like the threefold praise ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’ that rises to God; like the parts of the Universe: heaven, earth, underworld; three like Jesus’ three temptations by the devil in the desert symbolizing the main risks for man: power, wealth, fame; three like the three prayers that marked the passing of the day, the so-called Liturgy of the Hours.
info & contacts:
Fondazione Luciana Matalon
+39 02 878781
[email protected]
www.castellodalverme.com
Castello dal Verme di Zavattarello
+39 339 5370214 | + 39 351 8161906
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www.fondazionematalon.org
opening hours
Weekends and Public Holidays:
Morning: from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Afternoon: every hour from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM (last entry at 6:00 PM)
Accessible by reservation
