Atelier del Camouflage
Hilario Isola
Mediator - Lisa Parola - Luisa Perlo
Supporters - A project carried out as part of the New Patrons Langhe-Roero and Monferrato action, supported by Fondation de France, Piedmont Region within the scope of the project “Dopo l’UNESCO, Agisco!”, the companies Miroglio Textile Sublitex division, Ferrino&C., Sinterama Corporation, and the technical collaboration of Tessitura Oreste Mariani and GPlast Technology, along with the scientific collaboration of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin and the Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale.
Rocca di Piazza Castello, La Morra
The Fourth Landscape is an installation conceived in 2017 to modify the visual impact of the huge reinforced concrete wall rising up next to the Bulwarks of the Belvedere at La Morra, a small town in the Langhe, one of the most inspiring sites of the Piedmont Vineyard Landscapes protected by UNESCO. It is the first production of Atelier del Camouflage, an environmental art project conceived by Hilario Isola, which reinterprets the camouflage technique in an artistic key as an instrument of “restoration” and a device capable of modifying the perception of a landscape, thanks to an innovative die-cut fabric made for the outdoors with recycled polyester yarn and eco-sustainable technologies. Covering the four hundred square metres of wall is the blow-up of a detail of just forty centimetres of the famous Divisionist painting The Mirror of Life by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo currently in the collections of GAM museum in Turin, aimed at creating an ambiguity between real and pictorial, natural and artificial landscape that questions the role, both perceptive and conceptual, of perspective.