Salò Launches ‘Via Lucis’ Art Exhibition for Holy Year 2000

“Via Lucis. An Artistic Religious Journey for the Year 2000 Jubilee”. This is the title of the exhibition opening tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Sala dei Provveditori of the Comune di Salò. The exhibition features 14 works created with various techniques (terracotta bas-reliefs, ceramics, iron), depicting the Christian Mysteries, from Easter to Pentecost, revisited on the occasion of the Holy Year by different artists.

Exhibition and Placement of the Works

After being displayed in the municipality, promoted by the Municipal Department of Culture and the Civic Drawing Collection, the works will be installed in small chapels designed by architect Cristian Pollini and built along a scenic route, also from an environmental and landscape viewpoint: the route that branches off from via dei Colli towards the hilltop hamlets of San Bartolomeo and Serniga through via Panoramica.

The works were commissioned to 14 artists, both local and national: Ilmi Kasemi, Entela Kasemi, Ugo Donati, Giuseppe Rivadossi, Albano Morandi, Franca Ghitti, Mariano Fuga, Antonio Stagnoli, Gianfranco Renzini, Giuseppe De Lucia, Paolo Frascati, Giulio Mottinelli, Beatriz Millar, and Attilio Forgioli.

The “Via Lucis” Project

The “Via Lucis” project, a devotional practice that has recently emerged as both a culmination and complement to the Via Crucis, also includes a donation from the Comune di Salò of the pencil sketches that the artists created as preparatory studies for their works: these drawings will enhance the artistic heritage of the Civic Drawing Collection.

The exhibition will remain open until January 28, 2001, every day from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (on Saturdays and Sundays also from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.). The contents are detailed in the catalog curated by Fausto Lorenzi. The Via Lucis was realized with the valuable voluntary contributions of Alpini groups from Salò, Serniga, and Villa-Cunettone.