On Saturday 6 April the Riva Museum will welcome the new temporary exhibition: “Giovanni Skulina. Fragments of moments”.
Once again the Garda area and photography dialogue in a project organized by the Alto Garda Museum. At the center of the Museum’s cultural programming are initiatives for the study and dissemination of the numerous photographic collections regarding the Garda landscape, also in relation to the anthropisation of the territory and changes in society.
Two hundred photographs taken in Torbole, Arco and Riva del Garda by Skulina between the 1940s and 1950s, in fact, allow us to reveal a still little-studied historical period, immortalizing a context in which the last moments of a still rural world coexist with the nascent activities linked to mass tourism which would soon take over.
Luxury hotels, stalls with typical products and holidaymakers who get off the tourist buses in amazement contrast with the glimpses of villages not yet altered by urbanisation, the religious ceremonies that parade along dirt roads and the traditional peasant crafts linked to the eternal flow of seasons.
After almost seventy years of oblivion, thanks to the generosity of Giovanni Skulina’s heirs, the Alto Garda Museum, in collaboration with the Araba Fenice Association of Arco and the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Province of Trento, has taken charge to bring these extraordinary yet unpublished photographic testimonies to light and show them to the public for the first time, thus giving them the visibility they deserve.
The valorization of the archive of the Torbolano Giovanni Skulina (1912-1979), whose photographs represent precious testimonies of the Garda landscape, is part of the project with which the Alto Garda Museum preserves important nuclei, such as those of Carlo Armani, Augusto Baroni, Alois Beer and Silvio Pozzini.
The appointment with the inauguration of the exhibition “Giovanni Skulina. Fragments of moments” is on Saturday 6 April at the Riva Museum.
