On the centenary of the birth of Renato Perini (1924-2007), the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, from 28 June to 16 September 2024, hosts the first monographic exhibition dedicated to his unprecedented artistic production. Known for his fundamental contribution to the renewal of prehistoric Alpine archaeology, the "Master", as he was called to testify to his particular contribution to the construction of knowledge, has left hundreds of paintings, drawings and wooden sculptures, mainly made in a private and family life dimension; until today this part of his cultural legacy, the object of positive but fleeting critical findings, has remained in the shadows.
Organized by the cultural associations Sintesi - Museo Didattico e Bianconero, in collaboration with the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, the initiative aims to enhance a creative path that goes back to the years of the Second World War to end, without interruption, only at the dawn of the third millennium.
A selection of over seventy works, accompanied by sketches and notebooks, on which Renato Perini tirelessly noted the flow of thoughts and impressions, documents the various phases of a research born from an intimate expressive urgency, between a lively sense of the spectacle of nature, a wonder of the sacred and a lively dialogue with contemporaneity.
The different exhibition sections present, in groups, the variety of supports and materials experimented over time by Renato Perini, from the first pictorial tests to the "discovery" of wood sculpture, his material of choice, up to the bows and chalks that form the last part of his production; without forgetting the sketches and studies that accompanied his work as an archaeologist at every step. Its international fame is linked in particular to the excavation campaigns conducted between 1969 and 1976 in the pile-dwelling site of the Fiavé peat bog. A century after his birth, Renato Perini's profile is now enriched with new, precious elements that confirm him as a sensitive interpreter of the environmental and cultural heritage of his land.
The exhibition is held as part of Trento European Capital of Volunteering 2024. In this important context, the museum renews its commitment to opening up to associations and the community, inviting all citizens to participate and actively contribute to the cultural and social activities related to the exhibition.
