This Must Be The End

The project This Must Be curated by Claudio Lorenzoni closes with the collective installation The End in the hall of Fondazione Cesare Pavese.

The End è is the collective work made of words and images that closes the project This Must Be, started in 2020 to tell, through an original interpretation of Cesare Pavese’s works, the symbolic role that a body plays whilst running.

Its visual component will find a home at Fondazione Cesare Pavese, where the posters made by the 12 artists involved in this last phase of the project will be permanently exhibited from the Pavese Festival on.

Going up the stairway at the entrance of Fondazione Cesare Pavese, visitors will be thus invited to reflect on body and movement in a changing world, on choices and imagination. But also on the mutual relationship between human beings and nature, thought and matter, abstraction and concreteness, life, death and resurrection.

A collective work

The End is a collective work made of words and images that shows the metamorphosis of an idea, starting from the intention it built on to become itself a new note, a temporary destination always leading towards another and continuous creation.

Starting from his research on Cesare Pavese’s letters, Claudio Lorenzoni invited a group of close people to answer to a series of letters originated from the emotions and sensations felt during his ultra marathons. The result – collected in the book This Must Be Project. The End published by Il settenario – is a touching work, that delves deeply into the human soul. What collected shows not only the will and the openness to, but also the need of the human being to bare one’s soul without hiding one’s weaknesses.

The letters are accompanied by artworks by Massimo Bernardi, Marco D’Aversa, Pamela Fantinato, Davide Fasolo, Stefano Garello & Francesca Leone, Trish Korous, Marco La Gattuta, Premiata Famiglia Rivoltella, Massimo Ravera, Giovanni Sabbadin, Margherita Vitagliano, Birgit Zartl.

Special thanks also to Valentina Cei, Pierluigi Vaccaneo, Manuela Barban & Andrea Ciardo, Adriano Zanni, Mario Giammarinaro, Serena Rossi, Edmond Kaceli, Eliana Littarru, Erika Senetta, Stefano Galli, Cinzia Farina, Bruno Biddau, Alberto Gambale, Severino Magri, Max Nota, Max Ponte, Carla Marcialis, Om Bosser.

The project

The End is a project by Claudio Lorenzoni in collaboration with Museo a cielo aperto di CAMO, Fondazione Cesare Pavese, Comune di Santo Stefano Belbo, Proloco di Camo, i Talenti, Clito Wear, Sciusciante, Ulysses Running.

Here’s the previous phases of this multi-year project:  

• This Must Be The Place (2020): four artists in dialogue through performance, video, photography and writing
• This Must Be Ultra (2021): a solo ultra-marathon to celebrate Cesare Pavese from Turin to Santo Stefano Belbo accompanied by a writing performance on time, distance, geography and inner landscapes.
• This Must Be The Way (2022): four ultra marathons accompanied by the works of four different artists trying to express unspoken, unwritten, unsung words.
• This Must Be Dolorem Ipsum (2023): a 24-hour running performance and a photo exhibition to explore the pain and traumas archived in our body.