In the plain of Fonzaso, Barch Art invites you to walk slowly in a landscape where nature, rural memory, and creativity meet in harmony. The path crosses streams, meadows, rows of mulberries and walnuts, a bamboo grove, and the evocative barch, silent testimonies of peasant life, now reinterpreted through discreet artistic interventions perfectly integrated into the environment.
Designed and curated by the artist and poet ivan (Ivan Tresoldi) together with Dolomiti Hub, with Arte Sella as the main sponsor, Barch Art is a widespread Land Art itinerary that weaves together contemporary art and rural landscape. The project gives a new voice to the traditional barch, ancient agricultural structures once intended for hay storage, transforming them into poetic and visual presences.
The installations dialogue discretely with the landscape, without altering its visual balance, but accompanying the visitor in a more attentive reading of the territory. The path is designed to highlight, through the language of art, what still remains of the civilization of fields and hay.
Barch Art is a walk designed for those who desire a tranquil itinerary, capable of combining an interest in art with the discovery of an authentic environment. In every season it offers different colors, lights, and atmospheres, making each visit an opportunity to see the territory with new eyes.
Itinerary and works
The recommended starting point is Dolomiti Hub, located at via Monte Vallorca 7 in Fonzaso (BL). From here, the sports facilities of Arten can be reached by following via Vallorca, via Fenadora, and via Andrighetti. Shortly beyond, on the right, a sign marks the beginning of the path, which continues along a dirt road and is easily navigable by following the directional arrows.
The walk can also begin from the square in Arten, thus offering an alternative access point.
Along the route, you will encounter 14 artistic installations, called Avabarch, designed by ivan. These works function as visual filters: they invite viewers to orient their gaze and recognize the barch scattered throughout the plain, signs still alive of an almost vanished agricultural world.
Stopping in front of each Avabarch, visitors are encouraged to find the correct viewpoint to look through the work and identify the reference barch, in a continuous dialogue between art, landscape, and memory.
To accompany the visit, a paper map is available at Dolomiti Hub, along with an online downloadable version.
At each installation along the route, it is possible to scan a QR code that provides access to information and descriptions about what you are visiting.
