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If on an Italian Night a Traveller

Summary/Abstract: The small-scale Qfwfq. Opowieści artystów w ruchu (Qfwfq. Storie di artisti in movimento / Stories of Artists in Motion) exhibition held at the Italian Culture Institute, organised to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino, reminds that old images of Italy assume new meanings and certain figures of thinking about Italy succumb to erosion and crumble while others have to be deciphered anew. The author examines several select motifs cocreating the substance of the exhibition, which redefine the Italian landscape in its “exuberant”, “cosmicomics” editions inscribed into the imaginarium of loftiness: images of mountains, volcanoes, and seas. The latter disclose the contemporary experience of travelling, and we encounter in them a particular motion – a journey of the senses, examined by the author while delving into reflections borrowed from books by Italo Calvino

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