SNOWMADE

Snow sculptures in Alto Adige
English vesion by Barbara Bonfadini

Ingredients for a team of sculptors of the snow: a Pro sculptor or that says to be (Luca Bonetti, in art Bonnie) and two sculptors who usually carry out the work of rough-milling of the cube, the most tiring, that may well be carried out by a graphic designer (Nadia Braito) and by an architect that deals with preserving the architectural heritage (who writes).
It starts as a game, for fun, to prove…The people around the sculptures asks from where we come, welcome to us. But when is the awards ceremony? What do you win?
Perhaps some sculptor knows, but it seems that most of them (us) are not here in San Candido in search of awards, but only of meetings.
The ten teams usually represent a country. It’s funny to discover that beyond the two Italian teams there are also two that represent Sudtirol. It seems that for this people is important to diversify. Yes, I seemed to remember something like that and I would like to dust off my Italian pride , son of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Nicholas Cage. I say to myself that it must be great knowing four languages and being able to speak with all the sculptors as Nadia can, even if all in all my English learned from rock & roll works in most cases.
Who is to be maintains that sweets and cakes help to fight the cold, but the snow to –15 degrees is hard as marble and so it occasionally comes out of our mouths some bad word to the God of Winter!
An old man approaches smiling for having recognized between our occasional sculptors instruments the thing that he uses to brush horses, right there next to a cheese grater. He smiles again and it goes away.
Some of our collegues pretends to be angry because the Polish team is using a chainsaw. Prohibited! But irony is always around the corner: if this happened with the Czech team (in Italian the translation of Czech is Blind!), we could turn a blind eye! And what if the Poles win? It would be the first time that a chainsaw wins one Speck. Well done in any case. It’s now time for goodbye. We are fling to Colorado!

Gianmario Bonfadini

Issued on 'l Gazetin - February 2003

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