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| Margotta sonora and Acquario |
Birds. Singing birds are not unusual in gardens and their songs do not surprise even in this small
private garden nested in the Sestiere of Cannaregio, the historical
district in Venice overlooking the northern lagoon. A garden with an
intriguing past, as it often happens with Venetian gardens, and a blooming present. The crenellated wall by the road cannot restrain the
exuberant branches of wisteria, jasmine and strawberry grape that attract the gaze
of curious passers-by. For them, in the next weeks, the green doorway of Cà del Melograno, The Home of the Pomegranate, will be opened revealing, among the flowers, the works of eleven artists.
"Together, let us assume that the Earth is one small garden."(1) The exhibition Il Giardino Planetario, The Planetary Garden, recalls the ideas about nature and gardens elaborated by the French gardener Gilles Clément.
'Diversity, movement, an assembly of the living: nature’s rich landscape unfolds before the human gardener' (1) who observes and encourages unexpected spontaneous associations, who understands and develops the energy of the garden working with nature and not against it.
Cà del Melograno is the garden of a poet and artist whose creativity is inspired by nature, by the precious and fragile landscape of the lagoon and by the intimate and personal talk with the plants in her garden. This reflects her interests and experiences, a source of enduring pleasure and joy that changes following the seasons of her life. Now, for a few weeks, home for these sculptures that, like seeds carried by the wind, will develop freely. Sculptures inspired by the garden, by the observation and listening of the invisible work of nature perceived and revealed through shapes made of polycarbonate, fireclay, iridescent metal and stone. Sculptures set among shrubs of roses and pots of camellias, against a carpet of herbs, a clumps of miscanthus or an old pomegranate, perfectly combined with patches of flowers of different colours.
Birds. Their songs comes from a fig tree, actually, a dead tree where birds no longer perch. But, a huge grafting suggests new possibilities and the recorded sound of the songs of the birds invite you to stop and listen.
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| Acquario |
'Diversity, movement, an assembly of the living: nature’s rich landscape unfolds before the human gardener' (1) who observes and encourages unexpected spontaneous associations, who understands and develops the energy of the garden working with nature and not against it.
Cà del Melograno is the garden of a poet and artist whose creativity is inspired by nature, by the precious and fragile landscape of the lagoon and by the intimate and personal talk with the plants in her garden. This reflects her interests and experiences, a source of enduring pleasure and joy that changes following the seasons of her life. Now, for a few weeks, home for these sculptures that, like seeds carried by the wind, will develop freely. Sculptures inspired by the garden, by the observation and listening of the invisible work of nature perceived and revealed through shapes made of polycarbonate, fireclay, iridescent metal and stone. Sculptures set among shrubs of roses and pots of camellias, against a carpet of herbs, a clumps of miscanthus or an old pomegranate, perfectly combined with patches of flowers of different colours.
Birds. Their songs comes from a fig tree, actually, a dead tree where birds no longer perch. But, a huge grafting suggests new possibilities and the recorded sound of the songs of the birds invite you to stop and listen.
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| Gioco di specchi |
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| Corallo, detail |
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| Ceramics |
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| Tra cielo e terra: il respiro, detail |
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| Rainbow |
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| Natural-mente |
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| Body stones |
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| Body stones, detail |
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Photos:
TravelinaGarden, Venice, May 2014.
Works of:
Marisa Bandiera Cerantola "Natural-mente"
Heidi Bedenknecht-De Felice "Medus" "Corallo"
Waltraut Cooper "Rainbow"
Giulia Degli Alberti "Tra cielo e terra: il respiro"
Candida Ferrari "Gioco di specchi"
Simonetta Gorreri "Body stones"
Gianni Manocci and Caterina Perroni "Pesce degli abissi" "Pesce volante" "Acquario"Stefano Passerotti and Francesco Mantero "Margotta Sonora"
Sibylle Heller's Ceramics
Links:
Il Giardino Planetario, Venice.
May 18 - June 14, 2014
info ARTLIFE for the World Cannaregio 5000/A Venice
www.artlifefortheworld.it
Gilles Clémentofficial website:
The-Planetary-Garden
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