Video installation created for the exhibition La cordata ideale. Giusto Gervasutti e Gabriele Boccalatte nella Torino tra le due guerre, at the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin. The work uses archival photographs and recomposes them in the exhibition space through editing, enlargement and projection.
The installation works on the relationship between body, gesture and mountain, transforming historical documentation into an immersive sequence conceived for the architecture of the exhibition.
The installation
Exhibition context
La cordata ideale. Giusto Gervasutti e Gabriele Boccalatte nella Torino tra le due guerre Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin · 2 April – 11 October 2026.
Installation Eleonora Mastropietro
Project Eleonora Mastropietro Daniele Ietri
Archival materials Gervasutti family Gagliardone family Boccalatte family
Music Michele Cagol
Exhibition curated by Enrico Camanni, produced by the Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi”, coordinated by Veronica Lisino and Marco Ribetti, in collaboration with Club Alpino Accademico Italiano – Gruppo Occidentale, Scuola Nazionale di Alpinismo “Giusto Gervasutti” – CAI Torino and La Fournaise.
