VIA PASSARE

Description

The life of Alessandro PASSARE (1927-2006) could almost be summed up his passport stamps studded with poetic names responsible for this own nostalgia for great adventures. PASSARE wanted to go everywhere, it seems that the areas where it is not passed are those that remain to be discovered. His wandering the first led in the Mediterranean basin, the “Mare Nostrum” pushing Iran and Afghanistan, and in Africa, Asia, the Pacific to Australia and the Americas as well. But Africa is the one that will have the most walked in his life, not least by crossing the Sahara September 10 times, accompanying scientific or humanitarian missions. Manifest generosity was without a doubt the cornerstone and the compass that will determine the future of mobile Sandro PASSARE, through the arts in all their forms, often the most raw and most archaic as are the prehistoric stones and rock paintings as works of tribal art and contemporary avant-garde creations of his friends. During his travels, his passion is manifested in three ways, through:

– Photography: ten thousand photographs and slides that punctuate his career.
– The travel journals: filled with “graffiti” delightfully written, between “Traveller’s Guide” and “Méharées” of Abbé Breuil or Théodore Monod (as a taxi in Kinshasa or have a cup of tea from a nearby Papou, or how to measure the distance between Milan and the moon with a thermometer and a shoelace in the middle of the Sahara).
– Finally, the collection: Neolithic pebbles, bags and Bedouin nomads of every desert, knives and spears, masks and statues and portraits of the faces of the earth.