have you ever thought of the landscape as a
a sculpture
have you ever thought that a house is a tree
they can have their own personality
its own identity
have you ever imagined that a place can
have one of his soul
here today I would like to take you with me in
this immaterial dimension for
tell you how I got to
make works capable of
dialogue with what the ancients
Romans called the genius loci ie
the spirit of the place
I was born and raised in cambiago a
village of the Milanese hinterland ha
changed between a roundabout a highway
a seventies building sprout here
and there the castles of the cascinotti
ruined some eaten by nature
others have a tree sticking out of the
roof almost completely fell these
suspended dimensions are mine
eyes like a kind of like a kind
of sacred islets in the middle of contrast
with urbanization that in the meantime
we eat all the rest of the territory
in this context I start to
to get excited about the intrigue
landscape of landscape languages and
to the sacredness that lives in some
places
in the meantime I finish my studies
at the art institute of monza and me
I move to Rome for twenty years
he began working as a set designer in
various fields between art and cinema in 2013
a friend invites me
to participate in an art festival
urban in Calabria and I accept pushed
also from instinct and from the idea from
desire to want to go back to talking
of landscapes and nature, arrival and
realize my first sculpture the figure
of a man sitting on a wall that
look at the sea
you will wonder what a man has to do with it
sitting on a wall with the landscape la
nature is the idea was to
tell a simple story one
almost invisible story and then I decide
to use the wire mesh and the
transparency to be able to achieve
a work that knew how to insert itself in the place
so shy only that I find out that in
reality transparency had a
much bigger potential had the
ability to tell place through
of itself because the landscape was drawing
the moods of the figure and the light
of the sun changing told the different
Emotional states always of the character
so I realize that the landscape in
reality was the true essence of which it was
made my first work later
the experience in Calabria I decide to
leave my job as like
set designer and starts working in the studio
creating a series of sculptures e
he also started to shoot in Italy and
abroad by making works d
public art of great works of art
public as it had been for the first time
after a period of research I realize a
london control with control present
officially the concept of matter
absent ie I use the network and the
transparency to represent the subject
absent that the side materials of the
what’s this
my journey continues then began to
alternate with the figures of the geometries
of the planes of the cubes of the elements
geometric and began to make some
installations that create volumes that
they do not exclude the landscape but the
include enhancing it then start to
imagine to realize some
architectures in the landscape in which
the horizon defines the floor le
mountains enter the walls and alleys
Sometimes the clouds decide how much we are
far from the sky so in England
realize my first dome and if in the
classical archetypes the dome represents
the heavenly vault
my architecture is the celestial vault
the matter of which they are made and begins
use the language
of classical architecture for
to tell the sacredness of the places that
I was looking so much until before
with the new technique the dimensions of the
installations grew I had them
finally the possibility really of
to generate unimaginable worlds like this
I spend time, I continue to work
finally it arrives on the Committee on
work that would allow me to
realize a whole series of
reflections made on the landscape on the
place on the sacredness of the place it is
siponto siponto for those who do not
know it’s a small town
near the manfredonia in puglia the park
archaeological site that this
you see it guarded the foundations of a
ancient early Christian basilica
disappeared almost a thousand years ago
so through transparency
reconstruct
through transparency I reconstruct
the basilica vanished the report
through his essence his
a church’s most ethereal dimension
suspended in time that shows
mainly its absence
telling his story no the fact
that it was gone and at the same time
expresses the identity and sacredness of the
place where the intervention was made
the project in addition to being beyond
to be an unpublished project is the
fruit of a vision that has tried to
recount the landscape beyond what it is
let’s see beyond what we perceive and
when a project at the capacity of
being a pioneer in his field is able to
generate new contents and
new siponto perspectives has generated
of new perspectives and fields
public art in the restoration of the
development of the territory in
enhancement of the landscape and the
heritage and managed to do it
because he tried to tell the story
heritage the landscape through
an emotional experience through the
sacredness of a place through the
poetry mainly then coming back to
what does it mean to think of
landscape as a sculpture what
means to sculpt the landscape
Well, sculpting the landscape means doing
of a place a work of living art that
breathe and evolve with the elements of the
place
sculpting the landscape means generating
an experience that can put us in
connection with identity but also with
the sacredness of the place
I think that art has the ability
to tell this kind of story
I think art has the ability e
must have the ability to tell the story
poetics of a place because art
through poetry he can give us some
keys to reading that the only logic does not
he can give us
thank you so much
[Applause]
[Music]
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