Event date: 01th June 2008
Event location: Trieste

Along the Eastern Adriatic, the cradle of our culture, limestone dominates the landscape.
So white that, looking at it flooded with light, it dazzles. Dedicating an exhibition to it could
seem like a gesture with immediately recognizable meanings. But there are objects and places that are more
of others evoke the values ​​of tradition, in a specific historical time and in an equally defined place
circumscribed, which often manage to masterfully express the enigma of the evolution of civilization
Mediterranean. This is the case of popular rural architecture, of which the “casite” are one of the examples
typical. The charm, and therefore the reason why the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, has
intended to contribute to the organization of the exhibition entitled “Stone and popular rural landscapes: the
casite dell'Istria” lies precisely in the possibility of re-proposing correct reflections on the paths that
unite the populations that overlook this large-small sea. Because in the casitas in Istria,
The cabanas in Provence, the nuraghi in Sardinia and the trulli in Puglia correspond, and the examples could continue.

This is the first of two exhibitions wanted by the national ANVGD in Trieste, one dedicated to Istrian stone and the other to Venetian art in some cities of the Eastern Adriatic. Why?
“It is as if it were a clock – says the Hon. Lucio Toth, president of ANVGD – in which the exhibition on Istrian stone represents the hours and that of the paintings the minutes. On one side the archaeological history that brings us back to the common Mediterranean cultural koiné – see the example of the trulli, those of the nuraghe – and, on the other, the more recent one that is stigmatized in the evolution of figurative art”.

The exhibition on Istrian Stone was born from the collaboration between the Municipality of Trieste (Department of Culture and Sport), the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape and for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia (thanks to funding from Law 72/2001). With the High Patronage of the President of the Republic and the patronage of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Province of Trieste and the People's University of Trieste.

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