A sculpture on every page

An exhibition comparing the traditional wooden forms of Aosta Valley craftsmanship with modern paper sculptures, creating a dialogue between materials and techniques in the splendid setting of the Genoese libraries.

The temporary exhibition “A sculpture on every page”, after ending at the MAV, moved to Genoa in the De Amicis and Berio libraries. The desire to create a dialogue between the wooden forms of Aosta Valley craftsmanship and paper sculptures, creating a dialogue between different materials and techniques, was a perfect match for the book collections of the Genoese libraries.
At the E. De Amicis International Children’s Library, the most didactic aspect of the project was addressed: the exhibited heritage was the pop-ups created by Maurizio Loi, the works of the young students of a primary school in the Aosta Valley with the experimental didactic module tested, the splendid paper sculptures of the young designer Christophe Vietti from Aosta and finally the works produced at the MAV during workshops dedicated to the users of the day center. In the Berio Civic Library, instead, the exhibition developed a real dialogue between extremely different works and arts. Following the naturalistic thematic thread, ancient manuscripts from the Berio Civic Library will be exhibited next to the very particular wooden sculptures of Giorgio Diémoz, a craftsman from the Aosta Valley who creates birds and birds of prey from exhausted wood, the carved paper “pictures” by Fulvio Vicquéry and the three-dimensional works by Christophe Vietti.