Seen from inside, the park will change proportions and the public will experience the open space in a new way if it is true that it is an architecture that determines our gaze towards the sky and nature.
Description of project by Edoardo Tresoldi
From 15 September to 13 December 2020, the Villa Borghese park, one of the most famous and loved historical parks in Rome, will host Back to Nature, contemporary Art in Villa Borghese, curated by Costantino D'Orazio.
An unprecedented exhibition project that reflects on the future and on the need to build a new relationship with nature, in this complicated period of climate change and pandemic.
On display, with free admission, a series of installations designed to be exhibited outdoors and appreciated by all those who frequent the park, specially designed or reinvented for the occasion by internationally renowned artists such as Andreco, Mario Merz, Mimmo Paladino, Benedetto Pietromarchi, Davide Rivalta, Grazia Toderi, Edoardo Tresoldi, Nico Vascellari.
Back to Nature represents an absolute novelty within the cultural programming of the city: it is the first coordinated project with contemporary art installations as part of a strategy to enhance the historical parks of the capital. The works will dialogue thanks to transparency, which will allow you to admire them in harmony with the nature of the park and perfect coexistence with each other. Walking in the park will allow visitors to enjoy the correspondence between the contemporary sign, the architecture of the park, and the plants that inhabit it.
Edoardo Tresoldi, participating for the first time in a public installation in Rome, will bring Etherea to Villa Borghese, a largely transparent and habitable sculpture that dialogue with the trees of the Parco dei Daini.
After being exhibited at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Etherea, one of Edoardo Tresoldi's most evocative installations, arrives at Villa Borghese. The work, about 11 meters high, redesigned and rearranged for the occasion through architectural decomposition and plays of lights, is a transparent sculpture inspired by Baroque and neoclassical architecture that will dialogue with the trees of the Parco dei Daini and can be admired and inhabited by citizens.
Tresoldi investigates the poetics of the dialogue between man and landscape using the language of architecture as an expressive tool and a key to interpreting the place. The Milanese artist plays with the transparency of the wire mesh and with industrial materials to transcend the space-time dimension and narrate a dialogue between Art and the World, a visual synthesis that is revealed in the dissolving of physical limits.
The event is conceived as a festival in which, around the large art installations in the green, in harmonious dialogue with nature, there will be musical performances and interventions by street artists, aimed at involving the public. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to interact with the images developed by the artists and become protagonists of the festival through selfies and photographic shots.
