"Entirely open towards the sky and reaching a height of 5 meters, the artwork composes a space of rest and contemplation, a ruin suspended between architecture, nature and temporal dimension. The artwork seems to challenge the force of gravity, like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world. A living organism, permeable yet intimate: an emotional communication channel with nature."
Simbiosi experiments with the concept of ruins. It became a reconstructed entity, through unusual methods. In fact, the artist’s design is inserted into the structural elements of the decay. Between earthly and spiritual dimensions, the installation merges with nature and becomes part of the landscape.
Project description by Edoardo Tresoldi
Simbiosi is the site-specific artwork for Arte Sella sculpture park, the renowned open air museum in Italy’s Trentino Valley.
Tresoldi’s research, focused on the experiential perception of the space and the relationship with the landscape’s elements, moves ahead through a sculptural and emotional interpenetration between architecture and nature. Simbiosi is a turning point in the Italian artist’s evolution: for the first time, Tresoldi hybridizes the transparency of the Absent Matter, expressed through the wire mesh, with the materiality of local stones.
Entirely open towards the sky and reaching a height of 5 meters, the artwork composes a space of rest and contemplation, a ruin suspended between architecture, nature and temporal dimension. The artwork seems to challenge the force of gravity, like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world. A living organism, permeable yet intimate: an emotional communication channel with nature.
Unlike the "conventional" ruin, defined by a process of organic deterioration, with Simbiosi a reconstrution takes place, following unusual rules of matter, where the artist's design inserts itself in the ruin’s structure. Indeed, the Absent Matter here embodies the mental shape that tries to define and retain the weight of matter by giving it a rational form.
Simbiosi is an interpretation of the surrounding landscape through the intentional connections between architectural and natural elements, whose continuous exchange defines the aesthetics, meanings and logics of sculpture. The architectural archetypes, through which Tresoldi narrates the landscape’s elements, become here the channel through which they can be interpreted.
Sculpted by the surrounding landscape, Simbiosi lives and breathes in deep connection with Arte Sella park, which itself has undergone the transformative action of nature: the same hill where the installation is located would not have existed had the 2018 storm not taken place. Nature, growing slowly, will define a new, additional architecture: same as the other artworks, the installation will become part of the Arte Sella fabric and will ultimately blend with the park.
