Luisa Rota Sperti is an Italian artist born in Lecco (Italy).
Active since 1972, her expressive tool is the pencil and her works are divided into cycles, rich of inner and outer references, to history, to the great sagas, to mythology.
2017
Presentation of the book "C'era un volta" Biblioteca Civica "U.Pozzoli" Lecco (2017)
Donation of the painting "La conquista del Cerro Campana" Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco (2017)
Exhibition Pittura Uno ArteMigrante - personal hall Nanda Devi - Torre Viscontea Lecco (2017)
Monti Sorgenti - Presentation Cammina(r)te nelle Grigne - Palazzo delle Paure a Lecco (2017) Festival delle Alpi e delle Montagne ialiane- exhibitions, installations in Cammina(r)te's twinning (2017) Cammina(r)te nelle Grigne - Description, painting transportation, books and refuges (2017) Twinning Cammina(r)te in the Grigne - Cammina(r)te at Mount Pelmo (2017)
Exhibition Le Montagne Grandi - Museo nelle Nuvole sul Monte Rite - Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites.
Permanent installation "Femmine Arcobaleno" "Omaggio a Chagall"
- Parco del Sojo VI (2017) Wood Nativity "DIVINO BAMBINO" Somana di Mandello del Lario Lecco (2017)
Third reprint of the "Globe perpetual calendar" in a renewed graphic version (2017)
ARIA ACQUA FUOCO TERRA - AUTORITRATTO - (72X51) 1987
Her main theme is the Mountain: the physical ascent, the spiritual ascent.
It is the mountain of the initiation, of the magic proof, the conclusive shape of the great cycle Signore degli Anelli (Lord of the Rings) (1979-1982, 33 plates);
SIGNORE DEGLI ANELLI - CAVALIERI DI ROHAN - (50X70)
It is the spiritual ascent strongly evident in the Buddhacärita (1986-1989, 21 plates).
Here, the mountain does not have rock appearance but it is expressed on a metaphysical plan.
BUDDHACÄRITA - LA VITTORIA SU MÂRA (Central panel of the Triptych)
Luigi De Anna, in one of his 1997 essays on Buzzati and the mountain, writes:
" it'd be possible to say that only a mystic like San Francesco, or Milarepa (Tibetan wise man, XI century) could reach to fully explain the secret of the mountain".
It is between 1989 and 1991 that are created first the cross-shaped polyptyc in ten plates Francesco e gli uccelli (Francesco and the birds) inspired by a poem of Gregory Corso, where the mount Verna, the soul mount, receives and protects creatures, then the triptych Milarepa (his crimes, his evidences and his liberation); here the silence of the ice mountain circles the hermit silence. In 1993, Franco Maria Ricci in Milan exposed some plates of the Francesco.
FRANCESCO E GLI UCCELLI - (50X50)
MILAREPA - (52X52)
LE TENTAZIONI DI SANT'ANTONIO EREMITA, Central panel of the Triptych - (51X35)
In the cycle Sacre Montagne (Sacred Mountains) (1992-1993, 24 plates) there are together the most famous sacred mountains of the world, with those of her own roots.
In 1994 she fell in love with one of the most singular Dolomites peak, the Pelmo, in eight very intimate plates. Between these "Monte Pelmo parete nord" that Luisa thinks is her best work made.
MONTE PELMO PARETE NORD - (72X60)
The return to the spirit places is clear in the cycle dedicated to the Monasteri delle Meteore (19 plates, 1995) and in Dieci Tori (Ten Bulls). In these ten plates (1995-1996) Luisa makes an abstract of her life through "her" mountains (Grigne, Kailãsh, Dolomites...).
MONASTERI DELLE METEORE - MONASTERO DELLA SANTA TRINITA' - (50X46)
MONASTERI DELLE METEORE - MONASTERO DELLA METAMORFOSI- (59X72)
DIECI TORI - IL TORO TRASCESO - (51X51)
The year 1997 is dedicated to a moment of deep concentration:
In the Vitae Patrum (polyptych in 7 plates) it is the heart of the rock to speak with the voice of the hermits.
In the same year the Racconto di un pellegrino russo (4 plates) with an homage to Allen Ginsberg. These works have been exhibited in Rome in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia del Gonfalone in 2003, the guide to the reading of the works is by Carlo Ghielmetti.
ROCAMADOUR - (72X51)
In 1998, mountains come back under the spot, with the great Dolomites panning
(5 plates) and the symbolic pilgrimage of the Viaggiatori incantati e pellegrini (Enchanted Travellers and Pilgrims). With 10 plates, Luisa travels ancient Tibet on the tracks of explorers, alpinists, "missionaries" that there have lived parts of life rich of meaning. The cycle is closed with an homage to Reinhold Messner.
In 2000 is born the cycle most beloved: Pino, la morte e il Pelmo (Pino, the Death and the Pelmo Mountain), that during the making of the drawings, became a written tale. In eleven plates, it is developed a personal pilgrimage round the Pelmo ("My own Kailãs", as the author says) done with her own boots, and with the senses of a "magic child". This work is deeply liked to the activity that, since 1989, Luisa does inside the mental health department at the Hospital "A. Manzoni" of Lecco, drawing, painting, modelling with the patients. A smaller version of the "tale" (by Francesca De Giacomina) is selected for the fourth edition of "Le montagne incantate: Leggende ed Immagini - Verzauberte Berge: Sagen und Bilder" (Città di Bolzano - Stadt Bozen) and published in catalog.
In the same year 2000, with the collaboration of the councillor culture officer of the Comune di Lecco, the Galleria Bellinzona (Lecco-Milano) which has followed and helped Luisa's artistic path organized a very important anthological exhibition with a refined catalog with a foreword by Alfredo Chiappori.
In 2002 the same gallery, in collaboration with the Galleria Due Emme and with L'Osteria del Viaggiatore publishes a Calendario della montagna (in Italian and English): Grigne: dodici guide e un poeta (Grigne: 12 Guides and a Poet) in which the great guides of the Dolomites are mixed with the shelters of her house.
After the trip round the mount by Pino and the Pelmo, returns the desire to celebrate the physical ascent , with the spiritual ascent, through the protagonists of the great classic alpinism. So are born the thirty-two plates of the ambitious cycle Dalle cattedrali della terra ai sentieri del cielo (From Earth Cathedrals to the Sky Paths) (2000-2002) in which it is embraced one century of great alpinism, by lyrically telling the protagonists, through a parallelism with death and the mountains inspired also by Dino Buzzati's writings, perhaps the deepest intermediary between classic alpinism and big public.
In 2003 the social themes are the bases for the creation of a Mappa del mondo - World Map (12 plates) that becomes a perpetual calendar, with the purpose to make know and finance Fair commerce projects. It is accompanied by a folder, (dated and signed in 100 copies) with the reproduction of the 12 sheets, with a moving text by Don Angelo Casati. This initiative is presented during the Immagimondo 2005.
Then she goes back to her mountains and, during 2004, takes part to the Lecco celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the ascent of the Western wall of the Cerro Torre.
The "Ragni": Giuliano Maresi, Walter Bonatti, Carlos E. Comesaña, Giuseppe Lafranconi and Sergio Ghiraldini in front of the Fitz Roy scene-painting
CERRO TORRE
Inspired by the reading of the drafts of the Casimiro Ferrari biography by Alberto Benini, she created a polyptych called: Nessun uomo è un'isola (No Man is an Island). In this work, around Miro, there are the faces of Riccardo Cassin, Carlo Mauri, Walter Bonatti, Giuseppe (Det) Alippi, Pino Negri and Lorenzo Mazzoleni. With the portraits, she makes big acrylic showing some important Patagonian peaks. For the same initiative and for once in her life (so she says) engraves a Cerro Torre, in 100 copies. (with thanks to Giancarlo Vitali...)
CERRO TORRE
Between the works in the recent years, there is a fairy-portrait inspired to the tragedy of the Vajont, written and drawn in five plates: the portrait is one of Mauro Corona.
By continuing a path between mountains and legends, she "falls in love" of the Sasso cavallo (in the Grigne) and she works a lot about it joining legends to histories, but it is not polite speaking of things still unfinished.
Her works (and herself..) remain a little mysterious and stay, sometimes, hidden for years before coming outside at the light. Is it destiny or choice?
Some little works may be found in the "high" Grigne shelters: Elisa, Bietti, Rosalba, Brioschi e Bogani.
In 2006 spring the same cycle was exhibited in Valmadrera with the partnership of the alpinism school Attilio and Piero Piacco, and offered the starting for a few moments to reflect about going over the mountains and about alpinism tales, centred on the figure and activity of Dino Buzzati (with readings of chosen texts), Claudio Corti and Ivo Rabanser.
VALMADRERA - ALBERTO BENINI, CLAUDIO CORTI AND CARLO CACCIA.
In 2006 the same arrives at the prestigious Messner Mountain Museum "Dolomites", the "Museo nelle Nuvole" on Monte Rite (2181 m). The exhibition is in particular dedicated to Dino Buzzati after 100 years of his birth.
Remembering Dino Buzzati, a moving reading of Loris Tormen at the inauguration. Reinhold Messner, during the press conference defined the paintings "... of great delicacy and value". The special preparation of the hall was made by the museum director, Elettra Monico.
LUISA ROTA SPERTI AND REINHOLD MESSNER - MUSEO NELLE NUVOLE
LUISA ROTA SPERTI AND REINHOLD MESSNER - MUSEO NELLE NUVOLE
LUISA AND FABIO - MUSEO NELLE NUVOLE
(Photo by Giancarlo Mauri)
It is there, in front of the beloved Pelmo that was born the idea of the new cycle to which she is working (for a long time, she says).
There was born the new walk Ai confini del cielo (At the boundaries of the Sky).
Recreating and slowly finding again the colour, Luisa turns back and, armed with imaginary maps, (and her own dreams), she goes into the valleys, finds again her own paths and walks again through a deep research on the Dolomites legends. Here, no more alpinists, climbers or singers of the mountain with her to celebrate it, but little figures of women: salvages of the woods, "Viviane", "gane", "anguane" and water nymphs and "trude", and "bergostane"; princesses and shepherdess.
So goes down and hidden in the world she likes best, and that protects her (so she says).
From April 22nd to 4 May 2008 Luisa exhibited an Anthological of the Dolomites at the Trento Film Festival.
Luisa at the exibition with art director Maurizio Nichetti (Photos: Ruggero Ferrari).
Luisa shows a "sample" of her "Antologia Dolomitica" in Milan, from Saturday 31st May 2008
at the bookshop "Libri di Vetta" in via Stradella 1 - Phone/Fax +39 02 29518815 - www.libridivetta.it
in parallel of the best 56° Trento Film Festival projections at the Apollo cinema.
In the summer of 2008, Luisa Rota Sperti presented Cammina(r)te ai Piani Resinelli.
Antological Alpine exhibition at: B&B Ai Frassini, il forno della Grigna, 2184 Restaurant, Porta shed, Soldanella shed.
Shed portraits (permanent exhibition) at: Bogani, Bietti-Buzzi, Brioschi, Elisa, Rosalba.
In the autumn of 2008 (from 27 September to 25 October), Luisa exhibits at the Civic Library U. Pozzoli in Lecco: "My Land Tibet - Opere scelte 1977-2007 (My Land Tibet - Selected works 1977-2007)".
This exhibition is part of "Immagimondo" - a Festival of travels, places and culture.
Attilio Longhi, Luisa and Tona Sironi Diemberger (Photo taken at a CAI Valmadrera meeting)
The antological exhibition "My Land Tibet" is available to exhibit by request of councils, associations, galleries... There are also available: a catalogue and a movie.
From 10th February to 28th March 2009, Luisa Rota Sperti (guest of the Italian Alpine Club of Milan) had an exhibition at the Spaziomontagna in the Gallery Vittorio Emanuele II.
In exhibition, in this prestigious place, some original works from cycles: "Ai confini del Cielo" (At the Sky Boundaries) legends of the Dolomites (homage to Carlo Felice Wolff); "Dalle Cattedrali della Terra ai Sentieri del Cielo" (From Earth Cathedrals to the Sky Paths)
(dedicated to Dino Buzzati); "Nessun uomo è un isola" un polittico per Casimiro Ferrari (No Man is an Island: a Polyptych for Casimiro Ferrari) "My Land Tibet"; Lune nel Legno (sculture) Moons in the Wood (sculptures); Carnet di Viaggio. Carnet de Voyage
At the first evening of the exhibition, after a foreward by Alberto Benini and Marco Tieghi, it has been shown the movie "My Land Tibet" with Ferruccio Ferrario as director.
This ehibition has been a success and, during the two months, Luisa made a specific exhibition by modifying the notebooks inside the glass, following particular themes or events (like the women's day March 8th) as hommage to the CAI members of Milan.
From 10 to 24 May 2009 at the Torre Viscontea, Piazza XX Settembre in Lecco, Luisa exhibits in
"Guardare in alto" : mountains photographed by alpinist and interpreted by painters and sculptors.
(Adriana Baruffini, Giuliano Maresi and Tiziana Rota, editors).
This exhibition in occasion of the 2009 National Conference of the CAI delegates.
Other artists in the exhibition: Giuseppe Mozzanica, Luigi Milani, Pietro Pedeferri, Pablo Atchugarry, Giansisto Gasparini, Giuliano Collina, Gianni Bolis, Carmen Carabus, Bruno Bianchi.
Since May 2009, Luisa is fellow member of the prestigious "Gruppo Italiano Scrittori di Montagna - Accademia di Arte e Cultura Alpina" (Italian Group of Mountain Writers - Art and Alpine Culture Academy) based in Milan.
TALES, FABLES, LEGENDS AND A SAGA OF THE VAL MERIA
Roana local council, Altopiano di Asiago (VI)
4ª Edition Hoga Zait- Cimbrian Festival
This exhibition is open from 2nd to 31st of July
Mon-Wed-Fri 9.00-13.00 Tue-Thu 9.00-13.00; 14.00-18.00
On Sunday, July 12th at 17,00h in the Canove council town hall, the opening with Luisa and Giancarlo Mauri (alpinist and traveller) For the opening, on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th, the exhibition may be visited: 10.00-12.00; 15.00-19.00
At the same time: “Di albero in albero...”(From tree to tree) voice of Luigi Maniglia
“Tre cavalli e un pezzo di luna” (Three horses and a piece of Moon) a documentary by Ferruccio Ferrario and Ruggero Meles.
In September 2009, at the San Michele Oratorio in the historical complex of Torre de' Busi (Lecco), Luisa made a personal exhibit: Works - Moons of wood - Videos
Two little-wood scarecrows (Giuliano and Olga) are installed permanently in the garden space of the Museum of peasant civilization of the Vallarsa. (Photo: Giancarlo Mauri). Images.
From 15 to 18 July 2010 International outdoor fair 2010 - Montura Stand - Installations
July 21st 2010: official Opening of the Museo Civico della Val Fiorentina "Vittorino Cazzetta" - Selva di Cadore (open from July 3rd) with a donation by Luisa of her painting Monte Pelmo Parete Nord
On Saturday 28 August 2010, during the XVI edition of the Film Festival della Lessinia ("life, history and traditions on the mountain" at the festival bookshop),
Luisa attends with an exhibition of her 14 original paintings , illustrating the new book by Paola Favero "Il mistero dei suoni scomparsi" ("The mistery of the vanished sounds"). Foreword by Marco Tonon, music by Nelso. Some pictures
Special event: on September 16th 18.30h at Villa Buzzati, a meeting to talk about the new Paola Favero's book illustrated by Luisa "Il mistero dei suoni scomparsi"("The mistery of the vanished sounds"), with an exhibit of the original paintings. With the author: Luisa Rota Sperti (painter), Nelso Salton (musician), Marco Tonon (gardener of museums). Some pictures
From 3rd to 30th September 2010 at Villa Buzzati (Belluno) Omaggio alla Leggenda (Homage to the Legend), an exhibition of works from writings by: Karl Felix Wolff, Severino Casara, Giovanna Zangrandi, Ulrike Kindl, Bruna Maria del Lago Veneri, Nausica Zocco. Opening September 3rd, 18.30 h. Poster
On Friday 15th October 2010 17.30h at Palazzo Roberti, via Jacopo da Ponte 34, Bassano del Grappa presentation of the book Il mistero dei suoni scomparsi by Paola Favero with an exhibit of the original draws of Luisa Rota Sperti. A meeting with sounds, words and images by: Paola Favero, Luisa Rota Sperti, Marco Tonon, Nelso Salton and Primo Zancan. Poster
From December 9th 2010 to January 10th 2011, in the atrium of the Lecco's hospital Psychiatry ward : "The Magic Box" - Images from the charming world, an anthological exhibition of painted tales. Paintings and drawings of the Mental Heath ward Hosts and the leader of the painting activity (Luisa Rota Sperti). Exhibition opening: Thursday December 9th, 9.30 AM. Poster and some images
From December 8th 2010 to January 8th 2011: images, meditations, visits and tours through the Somana cribs (Presepi) Poster and some images
On January 9th 2011, 16:00 hours, in piazza Gaddi at Somana-Bornico (Mandello del Lario's hamlet): readings between the figures of the Somana crib (Presepe). Poster and some images
Luisa made the creatures (the Magi and the animals), Emilio (the expert of the living Presepi) reproduced the places.
On May 3rd 2011 at 11.00 am, in the Exhibit space MontagnaLibri - Piazza Fiera of the Trento Film Festival 2011, will be presented the book La stella del cardo e il covone di fieno, Giuseppe Det Alippi, (The star of the thistle and the hay sheaf), a painted and told (in an interview) biography about Giuseppe "Det" Alippi alpinist-peasant of Pian dei Resinelli (Lecco). A mix of interviews, paintings, reminds and notes from the Grigna to Patagonia with photos and portraits. Foreword by Reihnold Messner. Texts and photos.
On Thursday, July 28th 18.00th, presentation at Alpstation Brianza of the book
GIUSEPPE “DET” ALIPPI LA STELLA DEL CARDO E IL COVONE DI FIENO (The star of the thistle and the hay sheaf, Giuseppe "Det" Alippi)
published by Montura Editing.
"Det" as shown in Luisa Rota Sperti's pictures and Carlo Caccia's words, with a foreword by Reinhold Messner. The original paintings are exposed.
With the presence of Luisa Rota Sperti, Carlo Caccia and Roberto Mantovani
Special guest GIUSEPPE “DET” ALIPPI
"... e con gli anni č diventato una forma di yogi delle Alpi, un poeta con poche parole, un saggio come Milarepa, il guardiano del Sasso Cavallo. Lo rimarrŕ per sempre". (dall'introduzione di Reinhold Messner)
Marco "Butch" Anghileri interviews "Det". Video
Reprint of the Mappamondo calendario perpetuo dedicato ai piccoli della Terra (Globe perpetual calendar dedicated to the children of Earth) with a different typo edition. Calendar
Saturday, November 19th 2011: Alpstation opening at Sarzana (SP)
Luisa and Daniele Lira conversate with Manolo.
Luisa with Daniele Lira and Fausto De Stefani (.... he has adopted some scarecrows)
On the November and December 2011 Skialper magazine: Viola e Ecomago photos by Daniele Lira.
Viola - Ecomago
Saturday, December 3rd 2011 Alpstation opening in Cles (TN) with a KIDS new shop.
To the people at the opening, a gift was given: the Quaderno di Campo
and an attending diploma
Luisa's comment to the drawing she chose to do in this way:
"If we drop the colors, all children are equal".
The results: a second book has been published with Paola FaveroDentro la montagna Le Dolomiti tra leggenda e geologia, Stella Stellina has been published and enhanced, a Quaderno di Campo with a certificate (which is a painting also) has been made, on the go there is La Schola del Bonduhãc (with an elaboration both in drawing and writing); as witness of the evolution of the Scarecrows' game, to Sogni nel vento (Dreams in the wind) is upcoming. Last but not least, another cosy interactive book to read and draw is arriving this year, but it will be a little surprise.
The illustration work has temporarily halted the cycles, but ideas are still present and there will be time to...
Le Creature nelle radure - Fatunno (Fate delle stagioni perdute)
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May 2012 (17.00h) at the Parco dei Mestieri della Montagna for the 60th TrentoFilmFestival IL MISTERO DEI SUONI SCOMPARSI ("The mistery of the vanished sounds", illustrated by Luisa Rota Sperti) a meeting-show with Paola Favero, Primo Zancan and Nelso Salton.
Saturday 21 May 2012 (18.30h), at the Torre Viscontea, in Lecco's piazza XX Settembre, for the "Monti Sorgenti 2012" festival, inauguration of the
exhibition Sasso Cavallo Ritratti di un parete. Disegni, dipinti e fotografie ("Sasso Cavallo: portraits of a mountain. Drawings, paintings and photos") by Luisa Rota Sperti and Alberto Locatelli.
Histories of the Sasso, alpine histories, climbing ways, drafts and paintings.
It contains Piccola leggenda di Serpedrago e Sasso Cavallo (Little legend of Serpedrago and Sasso Cavallo) (Sass Cavall)
Carte d'Arte by Ferruccio Ferrario
Foreword by Roberto Mantovani
Thursday 24 May 2012 (21.00h), presentation at the Alpstation in Bassano del Grappa of the book illustrated by Luisa Dentro la montagna Le Dolomiti tra leggenda e geologia ("Inside the mountain, the Dolomites between legend and geology") with the author Paola Favero, the photographer Manrico Dell’Agnola, the President of the CAI Bassano Gianni Frigo and the music band Al Tei, that will play the ancient legends.
At the Alpstation site, sixteen original works of Luisa Rota Sperti will remain in exibition.
Sunday 9 September 2012, some of Luisa's scarecrows are at the first edition of "Gio’ca Piné", a Trekking of children and prams on the Piné plateau. (Pdf 3,85 Mb) - Some Pictures www.visitpinecembra.it
MARMOLADA - ETTORE CASTIGLIONI 2002 Matita su cartone Schoeller cm 72x51
Luisa partecipates with this work of her to the performance "Creativi per Lecco 2012", by showing it from October 13 to November 4, at the Torre Viscontea in
Lecco, Piazza XX Settembre, 3
(Open: Tuesday to Friday: 15.00-19.00,
Saturday and Sunday: 10.30-12.30/15.00-19.00,
Monday closed).
A PERSONAL EXHIBITION: "Montagne: l'epica e l'incanto" nell'opera di Luisa Rota Sperti
("Mountains: epic and charm" in Luisa Rota Sperti's works).
From Saturday 10 November 2012 to Sunday 02 December 2012
A personal exhibition organized by:
C.A.I. Lecco section (Italian Alpine Club), Lecco local council and Simul (Sistema Museale Urbano Lecchese - the Lecco urban museum system).
with the partnership of:
Mandello del Lario local council, C.A.I. Grigne of Mandello del Lario, Les Cultures-Progetto Iride (Rongio), Bookstore MondoLibri Lecco and Foundation Ercole Carcano Mandello del Lario.
Areas of the exhibitions:
Lecco Torre Viscontea (Piazza XX Settembre) Painting cycles - Illustrations - videos
Inauguration with Roberto Mantovani and Alberto Benini
Mandello del Lario CAI Grigne (Via Riva dell’Ospizio) Sasso Cavallo: sketches and booklets with photos by Alberto Locatelli Inauguration with Carlo Caccia: Alpine Conversations
Mandello del Lario Fondazione Carcano (Via Statale 7) An itinerary in the legends, with paintings and installations
The photos of the"creatures" are Marina Gallandra's.
Inauguration with a fairtrade reception
MONTAGNE 360 - THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE CLUB ALPINO ITALIANO - FEBRUARY 2013 Article (Italian) (pdf 654 KB)
From 2 to 22 March 2013.
The Italian Alpine Club - CAI Valmadrera (with the sponsorship of the Culture Council office and of the public library, for the 150 of the CAI foundation) presents: … nei tempi … sui monti: volti, canti, racconti …
(...in the times... on the mountains: faces, songs, tales...)
The Exhibitions: Interior, exhibition hall: Luisa Rota Sperti, the game of the illustration Drawings, paintings, installations ... the books
Images from the books and from the “author's drafts”; installations
Guided visits for schools - Details
The CAI Valmadrera section holds a meeting (Saturday 6 April 2013 17.00h at Centro Culturale Fatebenefratelli) to remember alpinist Alberto Tegiacchi, dead on the Chaukamba II on August 23rd 1993. It will be possible to see Luisa's works from her cycle "Le Montagne Grandi".
Speakers: Marco Anghileri, Ivo Ferrari, Alessandro Gogna, Ivan Guerini, Elio Orlandi. Moderators: Alberto Benini and Carlo Caccia. With CNSASA e CAAI representatives. Detail
Saturday 11 May 2013 - Comune di Mandello del Lario dalle 15.30.
Recycle all also the awful: live making of "creative products" from dumpings, in piazza Leonardo da Vinci. Anita, Luisa Rota Sperti and Gruppo Eco Fashion Mandello
During H-drà a Mandello
NEL bosco, CON il bosco, DAL bosco (IN the wood, WITH the wood, FROM the wood)
Saturday 25 May 2013 - Piazzale della Funivia di Erna - Lecco 14.00h.
Exhibition of things made with natural elements by the artist and the children along the learning path of the Young Group C.A.I. Lecco. This walking will take around 45/60 minutes during the third edition of Monti Sorgenti.
Saturday 08 June 2013 - Lecco - From 14.30h to 19.30h.
Stella stellina, eco-fable, 7 plates hand-drawn. Luisa Rota Sperti
exhibits at the Confcommercio conference boardroom, inside palazzo Falk in Piazza Garibaldi.
During H-drà a Lecco
Four works from the cycleKailãs: Viaggiatori incantati e pellegrini (Kailãs: Enchanted Travellers and Pilgrims) have been chosen to be exposed at the Messner Mountain Museum Firmian, in Bozen. In one of the pathways in the Western Tower (giving some space to the key mountains: the "7 summits" and the Eight-Thousanders), have been also integrated the sacred mountains. Details
LEGGENDE DEI MONTI PALLIDI - IL SEGRETO DEL BOSCO VECCHIO
Saturday 06 July 2013 - Natural Oriented Park of Somadida - Auronzo di Cadore (BL) - 16.00h
Premiere of the "Wood library" and Luisa Rota Sperti's exhibitions: "Leggende dei Monti Pallidi" (Legends of the Pale Mounts) and "Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio" (The secret of the old wood )
During the opening of "Wood library summer 2013",
Natural Oriented Park of Somadida. With the partnership of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato (State Forest Rangers) Biodiversity office in Vittorio Veneto (TV), Natural Oriented Park of Somadida - Auronzo di Cadore (BL).
1963 - 2013 VAJONT
In the 50th anniversary of this tragedy, Luisa offers a 2011 updated version (since the first edition of 2004/2005) of her homage to the victims: La Schola del Bonduhãc
This work is proposed to an interested publisher for printing on paper.
It is possible to exhibit the original book paintings as in the past at:
- Montagne Incantate Bolzano 2004
- Club Alpino Italiano / Ottagono Spaziomontagna Milano 2008
- Hogazait festival Cimbro Altopiano di Asiago 2009
ART IN THE HOSPITAL
With Luisa Rota Sperti and the Psychiatric ward patients (Lecco)
Saturday 28 September 2013 - Thursday 10 October 2013, A. Manzoni hospital.
Exhibition of the art works made by the psychiatric ward patients.
Luisa Rota Sperti and the psychiatric ward patients show their paintings and works to celebrate the Mental Health World Day (10 October).
Born more than once: Installation at the "casa sul pozzo" (the house on the well): Details
SULLE TRACCE DI ANTONIO STOPPANI - PERCORSI FRA MONTAGNA SCIENZA ED ARTE IN LOMBARDIA E CANTON TICINO.
From 6 October 2013 till 20 November 2013
Luisa's work is at this exhibition, with her painting of the spiritual father of all alpinists.
Place and opening hours:
Torre Viscontea - piazza XX Settembre 3 Lecco
Tuesday to Friday: 15.00 - 19.00 Saturday and Sunday: 10.30 - 12.30 / 15.00 - 19.00 closed on Mondays
Natale 2013: Il Presepe a Somana - Ninna nanna nella Capanna - Texts and Pictures
MONTAGNE: L'EPICA E L'INCANTO
Bergamo's Palamonti, local CAI's (Italian Alpine Club) premises. From 29 March 2014 to 13 April 2014 This exhibition will stay open until April 20th. / Open : Monday to Friday 09-22 / Saturday 09-18
Drawings, booklets, books and movies. Introduction by Alberto Benini. ..... (Poster and details)
PITTURA UNO XXX / 1984 - 2014
Galleria Momart in Lecco, Via Papa Giovanni XXIII - From 24 May 2014 to 06 June 2014 Inauguration Saturday 24 at 18.00h / Open: from 16.00h to 19.00h
FESTIVAL D'ARTE E SCIENZA
H-dra' Water, practice and knowledge for a sustainable future
From 13 June 2014 to 15 June 2014 - In the squares of Lecco's centre
--> What is born from this Festival? / ..... (Poster and details)
AI PIANI RESINELLI
The "Sass Cavall - Giuseppe "Det" Alippi" works, a legend of the Grigne", remain at the Rifugio Soldanella.
(www.rifugiosoldanella.it)
LA BIBLIOTECA NEL BOSCO
Natural Oriented Park of Somadida. Summer activities restart.
--> Works in exhibition
On Friday 18 July 2014, during the Sport Specialist event at the Longoni Sport shop in Bevera di Sirtori (Lecco), expositon of 9 plates from the cycle Le Montagne grandi. Poster (pdf, 3,03 MB) - Images
During the exhibition dedicated to Reinhold Messner 70th's celebrations, at the Castel Firmiano museum is visible the portrait "Uomo Montagna", a dream fusion of R.Messner with the Kailăs. This work was dedicated, when it was created, to the Alpinist's respect toward this sacred peak. Details
Il Guardiano del Sasso Cavallo
Saturday 22 November 2014 17.00 h - Sala Civica Don Carlo Gnocchi - Abbadia Lariana (Lecco) Poster Pdf - Details
Somana, Nativity 2014.
"PACE E LAVORO" (PEACE AND WORK) the bark Crib at the Torchio in Somana
Christmas 2014 - La cucina ai tempi del camino (There was a fireplace in the kitchen) - Details
PITTURA UNO 1984 - 2015
15 February 2015 - 29 March 2015 - Torre Viscontea, Piazza XX Settembre 3, Lecco
Works presented:
- Le Tentazioni di St Antonio Eremita (1990) Triptych - Period work.
- Dee (cm 42x93) - Cho Oyu - (2014) - Recent work from the cycle Le Montagne grandi (The Great Mountains)
June 2015 - Lecco "Art no frost, frigoriferi d'autore" (Frigo Smeg Painting, Festival di H-drà) Lecco
Luisa has drawn upon the Smeg fridge - Nanda-Devi - with temples, mountains, prays and 108 faces of Nepali women, men and children , presented in the Sala Ticozzi (Lecco) and exhibited in Galleria Roma, Via Roma 42 (Lecco). Charity project “Cargo for Nepal”
From 20 November 2015 to 20 January 2016 SOGNI NEL VENTO by Luisa Rota Sperti at the Libreria Volante in via Bovara, Lecco.
Drawings, books and the Creatures
Christmas 2015 - La cucina ai tempi del camino (There was a fireplace in the kitchen)
The museum area grows by remaining interactive. Luisa is very proud of this
"Conversations about Paola Favero's book" on Saturday 30 April 2016, 18:00h, with Luisa Rota Sperti and Carlo Caccia at the"La Libreria Volante" in via Bovara 30 (Lecco)
L'anima delle Montagne (The soul of the Mountains) From May 8th to September 2016, all the summer through, the creatures of the Cimbrian legends by Luisa Rota Sperti are exhibited at the natural park "Foresta del Cansiglio", with some graphic works about the legends of the Dolomites.
"Bonacina tra storia e leggenda", la mostra dei bimbi.
("Bonacina between history and legend", a children's exhibition) From May 20th to June 10th 2016 at the Lecco Civic Library.
In this photo, Luisa with her nephew Leila, who took part, with her friends, to the project.
From June 25th to July 17th at the Rifugio Campogrosso in Recoaro Terme, exhibition with the original drawings of Diamir la Montagna delle fate (Diamir The Fairies' Mountain).
From June 26th to August 31st 2016, exhibition Il Regno dei Fanes (The Fanes' kingdom) at the Alpine shelter Città di Fiume in Val Fiorentina. Paintings, decorative panels and installations by Luisa.
On June 26th, Luisa opens Cammina(r)te al Monte Pelmo - Il Regno dei Fanes at the Alpine Shelter Città di Fiume in Val Fiorentina.
From August 26th to September 4th 2016, exhibition Artisti tra noi - Donna (Artists between us - Woman). Exhibition hall "Il Torchio", Somana hamlet of Mandello del Lario
Exhibition "Dentro la montagna tra mito e realtà" (Inside the mountain between myth and reality).
From September 24th to October 16th 2016 at Palazzo Agostinelli in Bassano del Grappa. For the first time Luisa presents the whole collecton of her "Le Montagne grandi" (the Great Mountains) with a nice catalogue, just printed for this occasion.
Collective exhibition Pittura UNO - ArteMigrante - Nanda Devi
01 April 2017 - 30 April 2017 - ArteMigrante Nanda Devi - Torre Viscontea, Lecco
Luisa Rota Sperti partecipates at the Collective exhibition "ArteMigrante" by group Pittura UNO with
her 12 Nanda Devi works in a personal hall at Torre Viscontea ground floor.
Monti Sorgenti - Presentation of Cammina(r)te nelle Grigne
Thursday, May 25th, 18.00h, at the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco
Luisa with "Det", some refuge people and Mario Fiorentini from Rifugiinrete.com - Details
Inauguration of the "Festival delle Alpi e delle Montagne italiane"
1/2 July 2017 Piani Resinelli tourist office.
Twinning Cammina(r)te Dolomiti-Grigne 2017.
Alps and Italian mountains festival - Twinning Cammina(r)te in the Grigne - Cammina(r)te at Mount Pelmo with Luisa's works and installations.
Twinning Cammina(r)te in the Grigne - Cammina(r)te at Mount Pelmo
Twinned with the Cammina(r)te in the Dolomites, the Cammina(r)te in the Grigne was born in 2017, dedicated to the great Alpinist Giuseppe "Det" Alippi, in 5 refuges.
In the Dolomites, Luisa, with the precious help of the refuge people, renewed the Cammina(r)te at Mount Pelmo in 11 refuges, with a change in the Anello Zoldano.
