Mont Ventoux

With Mont Ventoux, the Kor’sia Collective- founded by Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo- revisit Ascesa al monte ventoso, the work that Petrarch wrote in 1336: a letter – at least in appearance – which recounts the ascent up a mountain on any April afternoon. Under this seemingly simple thematic line, Petrarch offers an alternative to faith, a challenge to the temptations we encounter in pursuing the truth, a journey of humanity’s ascent that leaves behind the dark years of the Middle Ages and determines a new paradigm of human existence: namely, Humanism. The Italo-Spanish Kor’sia carry his text into the present, with urgency for change. The uncertainty of the future becomes the key to a collective awakening, like the one invoked by Petrarch- a type of mantra, through which Kor’sia aspire to give new meaning to words that are important today: climbing the mountain and recovering our values.