UTENSILI OBLIATI

From 4 July to 29 September 2026, Palazzo Migazzi in Cogolo di Peio hosts Utensili Obliati, an exhibition dedicated to the tools of the artisanal tradition of Val di Peio and Val di Sole.

The exhibition project, curated by Alessio Ramundo, stems from years of research into the material culture of the valley and brings to the fore real objects — working tools collected directly from the local community — that document two practices central to the Alpine subsistence economy: linen processing and woodworking.

The exhibition is structured across two rooms. The first is dedicated to the complete linen cycle, from sowing to spinning, through tools that until the mid-twentieth century marked the rhythm of rural life. The second houses the tools of the woodland and carpentry tradition: from the implements of woodcutters to those of workshop joiners, who transformed raw timber into furniture, domestic tools, and building components. The objects are presented as expressions of a layered technical knowledge, in which every form arises from a precise gesture and responds to a real necessity.

Utensili Obliati is not a nostalgic exhibition. It poses a concrete question: what is lost, culturally and materially, when a system of knowledge ceases to be transmitted? The craftspeople still alive who hold this knowledge find no apprentices; the skills tied to linen weaving and woodworking risk disappearing with them, because they are not transmitted through books, but only through repeated gesture. The interior installations are crafted in custom-made wood, with an essential design that foregrounds each individual tool without overlapping it. The choice of material is coherent with the objects on display and with the place that houses them: Palazzo Migazzi, at Piazza Cardinal C. Migazzi 5, 38024 Cogolo (TN), a building of fifteenth-century origin at the heart of Cogolo di Peio, which has accompanied over the centuries the transformations of the local community.