Eden Project, Cornovaglia #3, 2013. From the series Thinking Nature.
Thinking Nature is a research focused on the relationship between man and nature.
Greenhouses and botanical gardens, visited in Italy and in other european country, become the synthesis of the complicated relationship between human's rational and scientific attitude and the spontaneity of nature; suspended places similar to a movie set within which the surprised viewer is immersed in an unexpected artificial wilderness.
In these environments the charm of shapeless and fearful vegetation, obedient only to its internal laws, is flanked by an image of a designed and domesticated nature, creating a sort of exotic setting.
The wonder that overwhelms the visitor transforms into a feeling of old familiarity towards nature, intended as an element that stores in itself the hopes and anxieties of the time, in an ideal and original condition featuring absence of conflict, simplicity and beauty. These spaces, in addition to physical places, are psychological places inside which the unresolved tension between culture and nature emerges, between a purely artificial spectacle and a feeling of nostalgia and wonder for the primitive beauty of a lost paradise.
Printed on fine art paper, applied on Dibond, framed
Greenhouses and botanical gardens, visited in Italy and in other european country, become the synthesis of the complicated relationship between human's rational and scientific attitude and the spontaneity of nature; suspended places similar to a movie set within which the surprised viewer is immersed in an unexpected artificial wilderness.
In these environments the charm of shapeless and fearful vegetation, obedient only to its internal laws, is flanked by an image of a designed and domesticated nature, creating a sort of exotic setting.
The wonder that overwhelms the visitor transforms into a feeling of old familiarity towards nature, intended as an element that stores in itself the hopes and anxieties of the time, in an ideal and original condition featuring absence of conflict, simplicity and beauty. These spaces, in addition to physical places, are psychological places inside which the unresolved tension between culture and nature emerges, between a purely artificial spectacle and a feeling of nostalgia and wonder for the primitive beauty of a lost paradise.
Printed on fine art paper, applied on Dibond, framed
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