Il pezzo di roccia che – staccandosi – è fuggito dagli Appennini milioni di anni fa, s’è fermato in riva al mare, di fianco alla spina dorsale d’Italia, come fosse un cuore di pietra: è il Monte Conero, l’unico promontorio che interrompe le spiagge sabbiose del mare Adriatico dal nord-est alla Puglia
In the course of collective experience of exploring and narrating the territory of the Conero Park, ten photographers and ten writers reinterpreted its naturalistic, landscape and anthropological uniqueness in an authorial key.
The artistic experience was led by the writer Wu Ming 2 and the contemporary photographer Federico Clavarino. The photographs and stories produced were collected in the publication published by the Skinnerboox.
The story of a "stone heart"
Over the course of several months, this group of explorers told the stories of a block of stone that, millions of years ago, broke away from the Apennines and came to rest in the east, on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. And if it is true that the Apennines are the backbone of Italy, then the fugitive block of Conero-the only rocky promontory in the middle of the sandy Adriatic coast-is its heart, a heart of stone.
Federico Clavarino was born in Turin, Italy, in 1984, where he studied literature and writing. In 2007 he studied documentary photography at Blank Paper Escuela in Madrid, where he currently teaches. He has published The Castle (2016, Dalpine), Italia o Italia (2014, Akina Book), Ukraina Pasport (2011, Fiesta Ediciones), among others, and since 2011 his photographs have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe. He defines his work as “coming from problems of location in space and time.”
Wu Ming 2 is Giovanni Cattabriga, one of the founding members of the Wu Ming author collective. Since his debut in 1999 with the publication of Q (signed Luther Blissett), Wu Ming has marked and continues to deeply mark the contemporary literary language in Italy. He has dealt with (psycho)geography, territory, and narratives in various articles and essays, and most notably in the Trail Cycle, a narrative quadrilogy of which two titles have been released: The Path of the Gods (2010) and The Luminous Path (2016).
The publication
Skinnerboox is an independent publishing house focused on contemporary art photography. Through an essential aesthetic, it collects and disseminates the visions of the most significant contemporary photographers active in the international arena. In September 2016 Skinnerboox participated in Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair at MoMA in New York.
The graphic design of the guide is by CH RO MO.
Credits
CUORE DI PIETRA is a project conceived by Sineglossa and implemented with co-financing from the Marche Region . Promoter: Municipality of Ancona
Partners: Sineglossa, Riviera del Conero, Conero National Park, Skinnerboox
Technical sponsor: La Medusa camping
