Vernissage L'Entschatta / The Beginning in Trun

In the middle of the renovation, CASA CARIGIET opens up to the public for the first time: L'ENTSCHATTA / THE BEGINNING shows works by Alois Carigiet from the family's estate, which illustrate the construction site as a motif in his work. This position is complemented by the installation KLIMAX by Basel artist Nadine Cueni in the Stalla and in the garden, which stages the primeval forest "Scatlè" above Trun as an eternal construction site and place of renewal.

Alois Carigiet painted and drew construction sites. Connoisseurs know about these works, but laymen may be surprised by his choice of this motif. These unknown works reveal a lot about Alois Carigiet as a person: what moved him, what he was looking for, and how he lived out his insatiable curiosity and fascination with his environment and its transformation.

The opening exhibition at Casa Carigiet focuses on the beginning, which is inherent in every change. L'entschatta / The Beginning thus opens up a view of the artist's unknown works and motifs, but at the same time creates a direct reference to the current transformation of his birthplace – the Casa Carigiet – from a ruined fire that was actually doomed to demolition into a lively, open cultural centre.

Not far from Trun, in Val Frisal, stands one of the last primeval forests in Switzerland, called "Scatlè". It was declared a nature reserve in 1910 and is one of the last primeval spruce forests in the Alps.
Just as Alois Cariget's paintings in the shell of Casa Carigiet take up the theme of man/technology and nature, Nadine Cueni also deals with the relationship between culture and nature in her installation KLIMAX. The presence of man has become an integral part of nature, even in the seemingly untouched primeval forest of Scatlè.
Both works show a moment of brute transformation and metamorphosis in the cycle of destruction and new beginnings.

2.30 p.m. Welcome by Esther Spycher, project manager Trun Cultura.
Introduction to the exhibition by curator Felicita Felley and artist Nadine Cueni.
Musical introduction with Lisa Stoll, alphorn