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Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Legarsi alla Montagna, Binding to the mountain, featuring a woman in black, stretching out a long blue ribbon through a street. Published by 5 Continents Editions.

Legarsi alla Montagna

Binding to the mountain

By (author) Elena Pontiggia
By (author) Piero Berengo Gardin

£32.00

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  • Commemorating the 40th anniversary of a legendary collective art event in a small Sardinian mountain town, conceived and orchestrated by post-war Italian artist Maria Lai (1919-2013)
  • Photographs by Piero Berengo Gardin document the local population tying all the buildings and the local mountain together with nearly 17 miles of blue ribbon
Full Description

The inhabitants of Italian artist Maria Lai’s hometown of Ulassai live surrounded by mountains and a theatre of rocks, far from Sardinia’s famous coastline. This book documents Lai’s best-known large-scale collective art project, Legarsi alla Montagna (Bound to the Mountain) which took place over 3 days beginning on September 8th, 1981. Harkening back to a Sardinian legend of a young girl saved from death by chasing a blue ribbon out of a cave, the artist convinced the residents of Ulassai to tie their homes and the mountain together with 17 miles of blue ribbon. A symbolic act of communal unity, the process was tempered by personal conflicts and ancient family feuds, resulting in ribbon that was knotted (for friendship), wrapped tightly (for conflict), or hung with bread (for love). This combination of land art, performance art, and sculpture was captured at the time by renowned photographer Piero Berengo Gardin, in images that the artist has worked with watercolours and markers. Art historian Elena Pontiggia has contributed the text.

Text in English and Italian.

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Specifications
Publisher
5 Continents Editions
ISBN
9788874399901
Published
9th Aug 2021
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World excluding Italy & France
Size
280 mm x 230 mm
Pages
144 Pages
Illustrations
80 b&w
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