A red structure arises, light and firm at the same time. It almost seems to emerge straight from the ground of Plan de Corones, as if the mountain itself had created it. The lines are clear, the rhythm is placid: a geometric translation of the Dolomites. ‘Alpine Geometry’. The Luganese artist Alex Dorici, who has Italian and Portuguese roots and trained in Switzerland, France and Portugal, has created a work of art that reflects his own multi-layered nature: open, connected, and in motion. Wood turns into structure, colour into symbol and space into experience.
The sculpture pays homage to the mountains and its inhabitants. Dorici reduces the alpine landscape to its archetypal lines – peaks, ridges, roofs, shelters – merging them into a geometric essence. The intense red embodies warmth, energy and vitality, whilst recalling the bright colours of alpine shelters as symbols of human presence in extreme environments. It is a gateway and a symbolic representation at the same time: a frame that guides the gaze, a space that opens up. It narrates ascents and boundaries, the tension between conquest and contemplation, the experience of space and identity. ‘Alpine Geometry’ intertwines nature and concept, motion and quietude. It reminds us that each step through the landscape is also a journey within the self: in pursuit of balance, connection, and the right measure. Here, where the Dolomites meet the sky and the earth, art becomes a threshold – a place where humanity and mountains encounter between the visible and the perceived.
