Buzzati dedicated a famous thought to the colours of the Dolomites, based on the impossibility of describing their ineffable nuances with a single adjective: ‘Is it white? yellow? grey? mother-of-pearl? is it ash? is it silver reflection? is it the pallor of the dead? is it the complexion of roses? Are they stones or are they clouds? Are they real or a dream?”.  The Dolomites are “the Glass Mountains”, the product of a curious series of events. They are the walls of a coral reef once immersed in the warm water of a tropical sea, teeming with life. Almost a freak of nature, whereby the seabed of a prehistoric ocean was catapulted thousands of metres upwards by telluric movements until it lapped at the clouds from which the snows flowed. 

Yesterday colourful fish and twisted shells, today high-altitude glaciers. Even without knowing much about geology there is enough to trigger an imaginary and to suggest antinomian aspects: ancient, earthly and geological nature in contact with the impalpable meteorology of air and clouds. 

The workshop led by Sergia Avveduti involves the creation of emotional maps that narrate a different and stratified personal geography. A form of finite/infinite made of impalpable pastel drawings telling the memory of things. A search between earthly nature and aerial nature, giving rise to impossible landscapes interwoven with real elements.