On the occasion of the opening of the third cycle of Thinking Like a Mountain, GAMeC presents a special edition of the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize, the first international competition dedicated to curators under 30, first established by GAMeC and the Gruppo Bonaldi in 2003.

The jury of the 12th edition, chaired by GAMeC Director Lorenzo Giusti and featuring the artist Isaac Julien and Alia Swastika, Director of the Jogja Biennial and co-curator of the 16th Sharjah Biennial, particularly appreciated the curation of Greta Martina’s project—nominated by Zasha Colah, Curator of the 13th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art—and how it emphasizes aspects of participation and responsibility in the relationship between human and non-human natural communities.

Fossi io teco; e perderci nel verde will be presented in the town of Serina—Lorenzo Bonaldi’s birthplace—on Saturday February 8, 2025, on the occasion of the opening, only to be later moved to GAMeC’s Spazio Zero, where it will remain on view from February 12 until May 18. During the months of the exhibition, the works by some of the artists involved in the project will also be presented around the city of Bergamo.

Drawing inspiration from the writings of Aldo Leopold and Giovanni Pascoli (the title is based on the line of one of his poems), the exhibition celebrates the desire to surrender to the green and find oneself in deep connection with the natural environment, and invites visitors to approach it with a sense of participation and responsibility. An exhortation to slow down and marvel at nature in order to rediscover the childlike sense of awe before the world, filtered through the perspective of a deeper awareness and responsibility typical of adulthood.

Artistic practices thus become a bridge between these two periods of life, and the apparent contradiction that separates them is resolved in the context of the museum institution that acts as a metaxú, i.e. a place of relationship, an intermediate space in which the confrontation between the childlike gaze and adult participation becomes possible.

All of the works in the exhibition are an invitation to the viewer to stop, search, and listen:

Umberto Pellini’s Corridori Lenti (2024–25) tells of spheres of mud and water partly made from materials collected from the Bergamo area, through an act of patience, attention and loving care.

Attila Faravelli’s Trifoglio series (2025)—portable stereo speakers designed to be listened to while holding them in one’s hands—stimulate individual yet never isolated involvement. Each device hosts new sound compositions by Faravelli himself, Enrico Malatesta, and Nicola Ratti, as well as a recording of polyphonic chants by Camilla dell’Agnola taken from the O Thiasos–TeatroNatura company’s theater show Tempeste.

Umberto Pellini’s Io, Tu, Una Casa, Una Città (2023), as well as Lorenzo Silvestri’s youth youth youth (2024) and Untitled (Roma) (2022) explore the relationship between the individual and the urban environment, revealing a sense of belonging just as much as one of alienation: Pellini’s urban metonymy expresses the communal dimension and the challenges of the city, while Silvestri’s video installation and emotional painting reveal the conflicting relationships of young people with urban spaces, seen as places of community and solitude, play and violence, life and death.

In Valentina Viviani’s Vertical Path (2018) and El deseo de transformarse en montaña para abrazar el cielo (2025), the mountain becomes a symbol of generational continuity and roots, placing the past and the present in dialogue. Through and Beyond, part of “Atlas, Fragments for the Production of Landscape” (2017), on the other hand, alludes to the idea of the impossibility of representing the landscape in its totality, fostering an appreciation of small traces and hints.

Felicity Mangan’s installations invite us to listen to and cherish the sounds of nature: Creepy Crawly (2020) and Wet on Wet (2022) are made up of audiocassettes containing recordings that recall the artist’s childhood in Australia, while the new tape Listening Between the Mountain (2025)—made especially for Thinking Like a Mountain and to be presented at the opening in Serina—encompasses a selection of sounds recorded in the green areas of Bergamo.

Also presented between March and May 2025 will be performances, workshops and theatrical performances around Bergamo which promote a conscious and contemplative immersion in the green space and lead participants into a profound sensory experience: Superpaesaggio by Attila Faravelli, Enrico Malatesta, and Nicola Ratti; Rudimenti by Enrico Malatesta; The Missing Forest by Valentina Viviani and Tempeste, Trilogia della rinascita by O Thiasos–TeatroNatura (Sista Bramini, Camilla Dell’Agnola, and Nora Tigges).