CAMPOSTABILE
Mercatorum
Campostabile ha voluto creare un’installazione all’interno del sito che ospita le rovine della antica dimora originaria della famiglia tasso. Gli oggetti scultorei, come prodotti dei mercanti in viaggio, sono fossili che ci restituiscono tracce del passato
CAMPOSTABILE, Mercatorum, 2021, Cornello dei Tasso (BG), Lombardia. Ph. studiomare.co
CAMPOSTABILE started in 2012, made up of Mario Campo (Alcamo, 1987) and Lorena Stabile (Alcamo, 1989), they were established through their first exhibition in Palermo, in the A project space. In their installations, they create a personal visual dictionary by abandoning the recognition of the individual elements to leave room for the arbitrariness of the gesture, which juxtaposes and assembles the material. They often hybridize their language with technology, design and cooking. Winners of the Piazza Largo Venezuela Monument Competition in 2019, among their most recent exhibitions are: Unfurniture, Zimei Foundation, in 2020 and Liber Fare, Museum of Sign and Writing, in 2018.
Cornello dei Tasso is a medieval village in Lombardy. With only 20 residents, it is part of the municipality of Camerata Cornello in Valle Brembana, in the province of Bergamo, which is 32 km away. Perched on a cliff that can only be accessed by pedestrians via the centuries-old Via Mercatorum, it is the native land of the Tasso family, known all over the world for the poetic talents of Torquato Tasso, as well as for the entrepreneurial skills of the various descendants of the family, who established themselves as postal couriers.
The Tasso family managed the imperial post of the Habsburgs, revolutionizing the system of news transmission north of the Alps.