The exhibition Finestre in Val del Biois arrives in Treviso, after the first stop in Canale d'Agordo (Belluno). Enzo Demattè. Notes, stories, poetry , organized by the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation and the Papa Luciani Foundation, edited by Donata and Francesca Demattè.

A tribute to Enzo Demattè (1927–2014), Trentino by birth, but Treviso by adoption, whose library and archive is preserved and enhanced by the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation. One of the most attentive intellectuals of the last century, writer, poet, scholar and teacher, Enzo Demattè was able to intercept and make his own the centuries-old culture of the Belluno Dolomites , and it is on this particular aspect of his sensitivity as a man and a scholar that the 'exposure.

The exhibition analyzes the ancient spirit of culture and civilization through the work of Enzo Demattè – carnets de voyage, publications, archive documents, photographs – and with the testimony of artefacts and works of art from private collectors. of the Biois Valley; the one which, going up from Cencenighe Agordino towards the San Pellegrino Pass, arrives in the company of the Biois torrent up to Falcade, meeting on the right villages such as Vallada and on the left Canale and Caviola, where the waters of the Gaòn gather and, after Falcade, those of the Focobòn and Valés streams.

A valley, «part of the Agordino, geographical heart of the Dolomites, today a UNESCO heritage site» states Loris Serafini , which has always been a territory of exchange and passage of cultures, due to the geographical position it occupies, and which captures, with the colorful frescoes of its houses, with the carvings between the boards of its tabià, with its people, its nature, its stories, the imagination of the young Demattè who began to frequent it in the early fifties of the twentieth century and systematically collect the most varied testimonies – noting them in his notebooks – to make them known together with the reflections that his observing and creative mind has left as a legacy to our time.

«The same intensity of observation aimed at the artefacts and natural architecture of the world of mountain farmers was also reserved for their speech and ways of saying, the songs faithfully recorded, through interviews with locals, in notebooks and notebooks that are still very readable today , in which headwords, expressions and idioms noted directly in the field find hospitality, in years in which dialects disappeared to make room for the languages of tourism and the mass media" say the curators Francesca and Donata Dematté .

Aware that observing and recording is not enough and that, to reawaken interest, communication skills, imagination, emotion are needed - possible only through narration -, Demattè gives life back to the oral and material testimonies collected which, in full respect of objective data free from falsifications and manipulations become the backgrounds and contexts for his literary creations such as stories and poems, or the interpretations of the works of the sculptors and painters that Demattè meets and recognizes in the Valley. Thus were born the long story of The Valley with the Saints at the Windows , the collection of poems Trei Orazhiòn , and the children's novel Gente di confine .