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#2 CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE. WATER PROJECTS
Water as an essential element of life, water as a bond between nature and trickery, water as a possibility of encounter: Water Projects offers us apath of harmony and of meanings exploration, to never end to be amazed.
Set inside the museum’s 2,000 square meter exhibition space, Christo and Jeanne-Claude.Water Projects, curated by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and his studio, will offer an unprecedented display of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s water-related projects, that is those based on rural and urban landscapes characterized by the presence of water in the form of an ocean, a sea, a lake, or a river. The show presents a chronological display of the artists’ monumental works since the early ’60s and illustrates their seven Water Projects: from Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia, 1968–69 to The Floating Piers, Project for Iseo Lake, Italy, 2014–16.
April 7th–September 18th, 2016
Santa Giulia Museum Brescia
Via dei Musei 81/b
25121 Brescia
Italy
www.mostrachristo.bresciamusei.com
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STORIES OF REBIRTH
#2 Michele C. Del Re, il segreto del giardino del sogno
There is a garden beyond gardens, an archetype that lives through the ages of the world and blooms in our unconscious as a Garden of Dreams. It is ‘the place of expectation, magic and joy of life and it needs to be constantly cultivated.
The journey through the ideal gardens of the world opens us to the knowledge of ancient and contrasting symbolisms that flourish in our dreams and tell us about life,death and Rebirth in the primordial secret garden. All this is expressed in the centuries through different forms of organisation and care of the garden, from the small blooming windowsill to the wheat fields. Everything expresses the vision of our inner garden and of our desire for happiness.
“The windowsill. Even there the beautiful blooms, life [blooms]. What I admire is the faith of those seedlings … in spite of everything, the seedlings want to liveand grow. And so here I live in that remnant of garden and I try to believe in life too… even the sill and the backrest are inside our garden of dreams… "
Michele C.del Re, Il segreto del giardino del sogno ("The secretof the garden of dreams", ndt)
Angelo Pontecorboli editore, Firenze
SELF MOMENTS
#1 GALLERIA RICCI ODDI
Piacenza is a city that hides small but precious treasures.Not only the University, one of the oldest in Italy - existing since 825 withthe School of Rhetoric Art, but places that although less known and almost hidden deserve a spring day… There are many places where you can eat typical dishes,prepared with local products; they are all very “friendly” and welcoming.
Piacenza means also Art. It hosts one of the most interesting - and perhaps least known - collections of Modern Art in Italy. The works of art were collected by Giuseppe Ricci Oddi who, once back in Piacenza in 1897, decided to adorn the bare family palace. Then, he relied upon his friends (i.e. artists and merchants, such as Giovanni Torelli from Milan) and in a few years time he collected works dating back to Romanticism and subsequent ages. In 1913, Ricci Oddi decided to donate the collection to the Municipality of Piacenza and asked the architect Giulio Ulisse Arata to construct the building that has been housing the collection since then.
Today, the Gallery hosts more than 400 works of great interest and wonder, including pieces by Boldini, De Nittis, Fattori, Pelizzada Volpedo, Hayez, Lega, Boccioni, Carrà and many others. The “Ricci Oddi” Collection is little known and it represents the courage, the vision and the taste of a man who succeeded, in a relatively short time, in giving life to a treasure of great charm and beauty.
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#1 orticola
A day dedicated to Spring’s scents and colours awaits you in Milan’s city centre: it’s almost time for the Orticola fair, with its 160 wonderful exhibitors from all over Italy and Europe. Orticola has reached its XXI edition and it is a show-market of flowers and rare, unusual, plants for gardening and nature lovers. Nurserymen, artists and green designers present their products building a path for the eyes, nose and soul. Orchids, roses and carnations…but even plants for balconies and vegetable gardens. Ideas and suggestions fora green way of life and home. Founded in 1865 by Count Francesco Pertusati along with 150 members, including the Prince Umberto of Savoy, the Horticultural Society of Lombardy will delight the city with new exhibitors and new initiatives.
Among the many talented exhibitors, “Rose Barni” deserves some words. Since 1882, in Pistoia, the Barni Family selects and creates roses: they have been committed to offering the entire world incredibly beautiful and charming plants. Barni leads a relentless quest for the recovery,reproduction and dissemination of rare and hard-to-find breedings, always winning awards and medals at the most important exhibitions in the world. Barni has a catalog of hundreds of roses and will beat Orticola displaying a selection of antique roses in pots. Not to be missed.
XXI MOSTRA ORTICOLA
6 - 7 - 8 May 2016
Indro Montanelli Public Gardens - via Palestro Milan