Paolo Cardazzo e gli incontri a Motovun (1972-1984)

Abstract

Nell’estate del 1972 Paolo Cardazzo (direttore, con la sorella Gabriella, della Galleria del Cavallino di Venezia) e Ladislav Barišić (direttore della Galleria Likovna di Motovun), in collaborazione con il Museo Etnografico di Pazin organizzano un incontro a Motovun, piccolo borgo medioevale croato abbarbicato su di una rupe carsica, a cui sono invitati artisti italiani e artisti iugoslavi. Gli artisti condividono un’esperienza di convivenza, e partecipano in loco alla gara di pittura ex-tempore, presentando poi i propri lavori negli spazi della Galleria Likovna. Dato il successo riscosso, viene presa la decisione di dare una continuità all’iniziativa e a questo primo incontro ne seguiranno numerosi altri (l’ultimo, l’undicesimo, viene organizzato nel 1984 ed è dedicato all’Architettura postmoderna e al patrimonio architettonico di Motovun). Gli incontri di Motovun, che coinvolgeranno in prima persona Cardazzo per parecchi anni, si riveleranno esperienze innovative basate soprattutto sulla possibilità di far conoscere e far collaborare tra loro artisti italiani (di fatto veneti) e artisti iugoslavi, in una cornice urbana e paesaggistica unica e suggestiva.

During the summer of 1972 Paolo Cardazzo (then director, with his sister Gabriella, of Galleria del Cavallino in Venice) and Ladislav Barišić (director of the gallery Likovna in Motovun) together with the Etnographic Museum of Pazin organize a meeting in Motovun, a small medioeval croatian village clenched on a carsic rock. They invite italian and yugoslav artists. The artists share an experience of living together, and participate there to a competition of painting ex-tempore, presenting then their works in the spaces of Likovna gallery. Given the success of the event the decision is taken to give continuity to the initiative; the event is thus followed by many others (the last one, the eleventh, is organized in 1984 and it is dedicated to post-modern Architecture and to the architectonic heritage of Motovun). The Motovun meetings, which involve Cardazzo in first person for many years, will turn out to be innovative experiences based most of all on the possibility of getting italian (de facto venetian) and yugoslav artists to meet and collaborate, in a unique and suggestive urban and country setting.

During the summer of 1972 Paolo Cardazzo (then director, with his sister Gabriella, of Galleria del Cavallino in Venice) and Ladislav Barišić (director of the gallery Likovna in Motovun) together with the Etnographic Museum of Pazin organize a meeting in Motovun, a small medioeval croatian village clenched on a carsic rock. They invite italian and yugoslav artists. The artists share an experience of living together, and participate there to a competition of painting ex-tempore, presenting then their works in the spaces of Likovna gallery. Given the success of the event the decision is taken to give continuity to the initiative; the event is thus followed by many others (the last one, the eleventh, is organized in 1984 and it is dedicated to post-modern Architecture and to the architectonic heritage of Motovun). The Motovun meetings, which involve Cardazzo in first person for many years, will turn out to be innovative experiences based most of all on the possibility of getting italian (de facto venetian) and yugoslav artists to meet and collaborate, in a unique and suggestive urban and country setting.