Felix Lalù (Oscar de Bertoldi)

Let’s get to know the artist:

Felix Lalù was born and raised among the poisons of Val di Non. He has always had little imagination, but many ideas.

Graduated in psychology with a thesis on the anthropology of the game (of morra).

Self-taught in everything, stubbornly DIY, he thinks that doing everything alone is not better, but quicker (and you have time left over for the rest).

He is a husband (of Francesca), father (of Anita), educator (with children and mental illness), singer-songwriter (with Felix Lalù), singer (with Ananda Mida), musician (with La Spuma Per El Bocia), author (for The Bastard Sons of Dioniso), illustrator for t-shirts and prints that he screen prints independently and runs a blog on paparism (Anita Quattro Ever). He draws with markers and paints.

Artistic CV:

Educator, musician, graphic designer and visual artist, he has been active as a solo singer-songwriter since 2006.

He initially released three albums in Italian and occasionally in other languages.

Since 2019 he has chosen the “noneso” dialect (a variant of Ladin spoken in Val di Non) as his language of choice and has released the first three albums in nones in history (No Hablo Ladino, Tut Bon and Pu temp Che Vita), where he talks about the vices and virtues (but above all vices) of the inhabitants of the valleys.

He has been defined by the best local newspapers as “the second greatest living singer-songwriter in the nones dialect”.

In 2021 he created and produced the board game Pomopoly, the first board game in nones and set among the apple orchards of Val di Non.

In 2023 he published Nones X Curti, a book of lyrics of 20 of his songs in nones accompanied by a substantial illustrated visual dictionary of nones, which includes more than 3000 illustrated entries.

In March 2024 the new single En Falò De Love was released, a multimedia work consisting of a song and forty illustrations installed at the Onde exhibition at Palazzo Assessorile in Cles.

The first album by Zentaya, a sludge metal duo of the mountains, sung in nones, solander, English and Italian, is scheduled for release by the end of 2024.

A new single on the reminiscing of the mountains is scheduled for release in March 2025.

The common thread of his production in various fields, proudly self-taught and DIY, is the criticism of the present and the narration of human miseries, accompanied by a strong vein of irony.

Proposal for the “Predaia Arte e Natura” 2024 itinerary:

The forest is a place of relaxation and leisure, but also of fears and terrors. Even for those who do not live in the mountains like us, the forest is part of the imagination of a good part of humanity.

Stories have been set in the forest since the dawn of time. Starting from fairy tales, passing through legends, up to modern-day cinema. The characters of these stories are the protagonists of this imagination: you cannot think of them without thinking of the forest in which they acted.

The work is composed of a series of stations. Each represents a scene that portrays a character from the forest. Each station is numbered and shows the name of the story/fairy tale/film in which it appears. Each character in the woods says something in the “noneso” dialect (through a comic strip), making fun of their story/fate.

Each element of the path will be composed of a hand-painted tree trunk washer (“sonda de arbol”) hanging from the tree like a medallion. The washers will be made of the local wood best suited to the creation of the work.

CHARACTERS OF THE WOODS #charactersofthewoods

• Sleeping Beauty
• Blair Witch Project
• Bud Spencer (Uno sceriffo extraterrestre, poco extra e molto terrestre)
• Commando
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Hansel and Gretel
• Hunger Games
• The House
• Predator
• Rambo
• Robin Hood
• San Romedio
• The Revenant