The Municipality of Val di Zoldo and the cultural association Mont de Vie are organizing the exhibition “The Great Story of a Company: Pasqualin & Vienna, 1882-1933,” curated by Fabio Santin.
The event will be inaugurated on Sunday, July 20, from 5:00 PM. The exhibition will be open starting Tuesday, July 22, until Sunday, October 12, every day except Monday, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the multifunctional room “A. Rizzardini” in Piazza G. Angelini, Fusine Val di Zoldo, Belluno region.
Guided tours will be available exclusively on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
For more information, please contact the tourist offices in Val di Zoldo at the following contacts:
turismo@valdizoldo.net
0437789145 - 0437787349
Free admission
THE FOUNDERS, THE COMPANY, THE WORKS, AND THE LOCATIONS
Adriano Pasqualin, born in Campo, Val di Zoldo on 29/9/1846, learned the trade of carpenter and woodworker in Genoa and Florence. Paolo Vienna, born in Termine di Cadore on 28/12/1843, comes from a family of craftsmen skilled in sawmill construction. The two were Garibaldians in the Third War of Independence and later worked in Hungary on the construction of the Margherita Bridge over the Danube, both occasions for meeting, acquaintance, and the birth of mutual esteem. In the justification for conferring knighthood to Adriano Pasqualin in 1914, it is stated: “He began his activity by opening the company “Pasqualin and Vienna” with his brother-in-law Paolo Vienna for carpentry, woodwork, and construction work in general. He built at his own expense the first School Laboratory established in Italy for carpentry, equipping it with all the tools so that the young students would become skilled workers.” The two are also brothers-in-law, having married sisters Angela and Virginia Bottecchia. “The Company developed and strengthened, giving rise to four more establishments in Turin, Milan, Florence, and Rome, reaching one of the top positions among Italian Construction Companies.” In 1882, the Company built the Cotton Factory in Venice, and then: large ephemeral constructions for the World Expositions; the mobile framework to reconstruct the bell tower of San Marco after its collapse; shanties for the earthquake victims of Messina, Marsica, Irpinia, and Vulture and for the Great War; arches for bridges; the reclamation of the Agro Pontino; the first refuges in the Dolomites; industrial plants; villas and grand hotels; roads… Pasqualin and Vienna are pioneers in the use of reinforced concrete, patenting innovative construction techniques; they build hydroelectric plants, raise the high antennas for the first radio transmissions, erect exhibition pavilions for the Milan Fair, for the Venice Biennale, etc. Cavaliere Paolo Vienna dies on 27/6/1922 and is buried in the family tomb in the Pirago cemetery in Longarone. Cavaliere Adriano Pasqualin dies on 17/6/1931 and is buried in the family tomb in the San Michele cemetery in Venice. Their children are described as follows by Dr. Concetto Liggeri, who concludes the history of the company in 1933 with the preventative concordat procedure: “Ing. Ferdinando Vienna, cultured, with refined manners, not very communicative, cold to himself and others. Cav. Arnaldo Pasqualin, full of energy, full of movement, full of “verve,” making him a bold and likable businessman.” Ferdinando Vienna dies in 1961, Arnaldo Pasqualin in 1963. The exhibition materials on the ground floor are organized as follows: - documents, letters, contracts, books, catalogs, albums, original articles from the company, coming from family archives and descendants of employees; - photographs of numerous construction sites, working phases, groups of collaborators and employees; - projects, models, and models made by employees of the time and contemporary local craftsmen; in particular, the entrance to the exhibition features a large and beautiful arch created by students of the Center for Training and Safety of Belluno – C.F.S. - personal objects of Adriano Pasqualin and Paolo Vienna coming from family archives. A video is in the process of being made that will accompany the exhibition from August to October. On the second floor of the multifunctional center is “an exhibition within an exhibition,” namely 1:1 reproductions of several dozen posters from the National Museum Salce Collection in Treviso featuring the company Pasqualin & Vienna. Indeed, it happens that the director of the Museum is the great-granddaughter of Adriano Pasqualin. The setup will continue during the first week of opening, as new interesting materials are still arriving. Silcon Plastic has made possible the creation of a substantial and elegant volume that for the first time tells the story of Pasqualin & Vienna and includes a comprehensive chronology of the many works the company completed, drawing information from original documents. The Mont de Vie association, buoyed by the notable success of the exhibition "The Boats of the Casal: the Masterpiece of the Squerarioli of Zoldo in Venice" in 2019, also realized in synergy with the Municipality of Val di Zoldo, intends to continue along the path taken, addressing both residents and quality tourism, deepening research on the relationships between mountains and lagoon, Zoldo and Venice, on which much remains to be discovered.
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