04.03.2026

‛CALAMITA/À. Past, present, future’

Opening: Thursday, 5th March 2026, 6 pm

Exhibition Venue:
Fondazione Mazzotti
Musei Civici Treviso
Casa Robegan
Via Antonio Canova 38
Treviso (Italy)

Exhibition dates: 5th March – 6th April 2026

In 2026, Italy stands at the center of the international stage with the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. An event that has turned the spotlight on a territory shaped by sport, nature, and passion, suspended between ice and rock. At the same time, it invites us to reflect on the mountain landscape, its history, and its ongoing transformations.

In this context the exhibition ‘CALAMITA/À. Past, present, future’ shows the results of CALAMITA/À, the eleven-year multidisciplinary artistic research project curated by Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve, originating from the tragedy of the Vajont disaster of 9th October 1963.

CALAMITA/À is an investigation that intertwines memory and contemporaneity, confronting us with an urgent question: how can we see the catastrophe that is approaching? The exhibition brings together photographic works, texts, music and reflections on the relationship between humans, nature, and power, questioning the fate of mountain territories between past and future.

Artists:
Gianpaolo Arena
Marina Caneve
Céline Clanet
François Deladerriere
Petra Stavast
Jan Stradtmann

Music: Gianluca Favaron and Stefano Gentile

Books: ‘CALAMITA/À. An investigation into the Vajont catastrophe’ (Fw:Books, 2024); ‘The walking mountain’ (self-publish, 2016)

An invitation to look at the mountain not only as a sporting landscape, but as a fragile and living space, capable of telling us who we are.

Thanks to the patronage of the Province of Treviso and to the collaboration of the Comune di Treviso, Confcommercio, and the Camera di Commercio di Treviso–Belluno. 

(graphic and text: CALAMITA/À, Fondazione Mazzotti)