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            <forename>Alberto</forename>
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        <p>Sardinia is a land with the extraordinary ability of compressing space and time: over its thousand-year-old history, this ability has flowed away imperceptibly, safeguarding what has been lost elsewhere. The solitude of places. Journeys and Architecture on the Edges is a journey to peripheral places, as opposed to the traditional destinations of the Grand Tour, as seen through the external gaze of some writers who found in Sardinia the magical topography one needs to narrate autobiographical experiences, as well as the gaze of some extraordinary photographers (August Sander, Giuseppe Pagano and Henri Cartier-Bresson) who tried to build an unpublished 'vocabulary of images', capable of recounting an archaic world which slowly opened up to modernity and its inevitable contradictions. Some small architectures complete the cognitive path of a landscape made out of apparent shadows and solitudes, where, to quote David Herbert Lawrence, nothing is finished and nothing is definitive.</p>
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        <p>La Sardegna è una terra che possiede la straordinaria capacità di comprimere lo spazio e il tempo: nella sua storia millenaria, questo è fluito via impercettibilmente, salvaguardando ciò che altrove è andato perduto.
The solitude of places. Journeys and Architecture on the Edges è un viaggio in luoghi ai margini rispetto alle tradizionali mete del Grand Tour, attraverso lo sguardo esterno di alcuni scrittori che seppero ritrovare in essi la magica topografia necessaria al racconto di un’esperienza autobiografica e di alcuni straordinari fotografi – August Sander, Giuseppe Pagano e Henri Cartier-Bresson – che cercarono di costruire a partire da essi un inedito ‘vocabolario di immagini’ capace di raccontare un mondo arcaico che lentamente si apriva alla modernità e alle sue inevitabili contraddizioni.
Alcune piccole architetture completano il percorso conoscitivo di un paesaggio d’ombre e solitudini apparenti, in cui, per citare David Herbert Lawrence, nulla è finito e nulla è definitivo.
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