VITTORINO ANDREOLI - DRY WALLS (LOW Editions)

We live in a paradoxical age: the more we specialize, the less we know how to do. New courses of study aim to provide skills in fields that are all too specific; the jobs of the future seem to require skills that are both profound and extraordinarily limited.

And so, day after day, we lose sight more and more of a universal know-how, which requires intelligence, planning and, why not, the use of our hands. With the result that we inevitably hand ourselves over to the consumer society, from which we must continue to buy, and we withdraw from the society of men, which is that of building together. Vittorino Andreoli, a world-renowned psychiatrist, has reflected at length on these issues. And he has traced the history of mankind backwards to discover at what point we really learned to live together, finding in the dry stone walls - humble constructions, but which have become UNESCO World Heritage Sites - the symbol of a creative wisdom and healthy sociality that we have desperately lost today.

First man was a stray, constantly struggling with nature and with others, then on that "making with hands," ancient and ever new, he built civilization. Keeping alive for centuries a skill that is also encounter, is living in the world. In the times of the dematerialization of experience and detachment, of virtuality and money as the only means of access to context, Vittorino Andreoli calls us back to our history with the lucid gaze and passion that have always distinguished his human journey.

The meeting will be moderated by Gabriele Dadati - Writer

Saturday, April 13 - 9 p.m.

Church of Santa Maria Assunta - Bienno

Free admission subject to availability

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