In Cortina, the cable car becomes art: Fulvio Morella's project for the 2026 Paralympics

In the heart of the Dolomites, among the crags that dominate the Cortina landscape, a cable car ride becomes an artistic experience and cultural reflection. On the occasion of the Paralympics 2026, artist Fulvio Morella ’s project I limiti non esistono (Limits don’t exist ) transforms the ascent to Lagazuoi into a traveling work of art, a “cable car without limits” suspended between heaven and earth. The initiative is part of the exhibition Inside Cortina di Stelle, promoted by CRAMUM and curated by Sabino Maria Frassà, set up at the Lagazuoi EXPO Dolomiti, the structure located at the arrival station of the Lagazuoi cable car. The exhibition can be visited free of charge until April 5, 2026, and represents the concluding stage of an artistic and symbolic journey that has traversed Italy for an entire year, preparing the public’s gaze for the Paralympic spirit.

In Morella’s work, the boundary between technical infrastructure and artistic work dissolves. The cable car, normally perceived as a functional means of transportation for the ascent to altitude, becomes a symbolic and conceptual device capable of transforming a simple movement into a sensory and intellectual experience. The artist calls this installation a “cable car without limits,” a moving organism that invites reflection on the relationship between body, landscape and possibility.

At the center of the intervention is the artistic language that has characterized Morella’s research for years: the so-called Starry Braille. Through this expressive system, the artist scatters the cable car cabin with tactile constellations that recall the Braille reading system. The dotted signs thus allow anyone, regardless of their visual abilities, to perceive and “read” the altitude and the surrounding space. The work thus becomes an inclusive device that invites people to experience the mountains through a shared experience.

According to curator Sabino Maria Frassà, the intervention does not simply decorate a space: “the work,” he says, “converts an everyday gesture into an experience of thought: the mountain is no longer a peak to be conquered by force, but a landscape to be inhabited with measure, listening and inclusion.”

The central moment of this journey is the presentation of the volume The Limits Don’t Exist, which collects and narrates the meaning of the art project. Tomorrow’s meeting, Saturday, March 7 at 12:30 p.m., will feature the artist and curator together with several institutional figures engaged in the dialogue between European culture, sports and inclusion. Announced guests include Maurizio Molinari, head of the European Parliament Office in Milan, the Honorable Rosanna Filippin, MEP Elena Donazzan and Olympic attaché to the Republic of San Marino Gianni Cardelli. The meeting is placed under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the European Parliament and represents a moment of dialogue between institutions, art and sport.

Morella’s work is also rooted in a symbolic and mythological dimension. Indeed, the project recalls the figure of Prometheus, the titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods to give it to humanity. In this perspective, fire becomes a metaphor for knowledge and creativity, elements that the artist ideally connects to the meaning of the Olympic flashlight.

It is precisely the theme of Olympic memory that constitutes an additional element of the “Cortina di Stelle” exhibition. Thanks to the collaboration with the Republic of San Marino, the exhibition presents some objects of great historical value related to the Olympic and Paralympic tradition. Prominent among them is the torch from the 1960 Rome Games, an event that also marked the birth of the first Paralympic Games in history.

The object takes on a symbolic value within the exhibition itinerary. Indeed, the Olympic flashlight becomes the meeting point between historical memory, athletic gesture and artistic research. Morella’s work thus establishes a dialogue between different cultural dimensions, linking the imagery of the mountain to the history of sport and philosophical reflection on the idea of freedom. In the artist’s words, “Freedom is the synthesis of three dimensions: being able to do, being consistent with oneself and creative ingenuity.”

In Cortina, the cable car becomes art: Fulvio Morella's project for the 2026 Paralympics

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