RI-GENERATAION BY CRACKING ART
Monumental Garden of Valsanzibio – Galzignano Terme – Padova
From the 21st of May to the 27th of September
Galzignano Terme – Padova. For the entire summer in the Monumental Garden of Valsanzibio there will be an exhibit of the sculptures Cracking Art, a movement of International recognition started in Milan in 1993 with an incomparable exhibit, and, in the following years, have exhibited in the main city around the world. The Cracking’s animals are a provocation, a warning to love and respect nature.
“Large plastic snails, frogs, swallows, rabbits, wolfs and meerkats: they are what we risk to find in the near future if we will not be able to put a stop to the deforestation, pollution, and in general to all the damages we are doing to Mother Nature.” Says Armando Pizzoni Ardemani, owner of the Tenuta Valsanzibio, with a master degree in Wildlife Biology/Zoology at the North Carolina State University, happy to have this exhibit in the 8 hectares of the Monumental Garden. Valsanzibio is an open air museum maintained intact through 350 years of history. This exhibit, from many aspects, is provoking, since it proposes more than 30 modern artifacts made of recycle plastic in a Barocco Garden considered one of the most important historic garden in the world, realized on the project of the Vatican architect and fountain expert Luigi Bernini, enriched by about seventy sculptures engraved in the Istria’s stone by the Merengo, fountanis, water games, with many trees several hundred year old coming from all over the world – from the California Cedar, specimen esteemed to be the oldest of its kind in Europe, or the Balearic Boxwood plants, the Atlantic Cedars, the Arizona Cypresses.
(At the time of the Barbarigo family, in the seventeen century, been able to own plants and trees coming from the New World was a symbol of richness and power.)
Valsanzibio is a place where, even today, the beauty of the uncontaminated nature triumph, and it wants to be an invitation to other Gardens, green areas, woodland and forest, not less seas and oceans, to be preserved with love and care.
The title chosen for this exhibit is Ri-generamento (Re-generation), with a clear reference to the Re-Generation exhibits of the Cracking Art artistic movement, prepared in Italy, in the United States and in other part of the world. Furthermore, it wants to echo in a positive way the Renascence, and, finally, it wants to be a tribute to the feeling of peace and wellbeing pass on by the Valsanzibio’s Garden.
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“Le nostre installazioni sono presenze semplici e immediate ma allo stesso tempo sorprendenti, che desiderano portare un alto valore partecipativo ed empatico da parte del pubblico. Presenze che intendono essere richiamo ad una maggiore attenzione alla tutela del paesaggio, all’Arte e alla cultura. Sono invasioni ludiche, icone odierne di favole contemporanee che vogliono dialogare con il patrimonio culturale che li ha generati, rigenerandolo.” Kicco – Cracking Art
Cracking Art è un movimento artistico contemporaneo, ideato da sei artisti internazionali, che ha visto il debutto nel 1993 con la mostra Epocale a Milano curata da Tommaso Trini e Luca Beatrice. Sottolineano l’intenzione di cambiare la storia dell’arte attraverso un forte impegno sociale e ambientale unito ad un rivoluzionario innovativo uso di materiali plastici che evocano una stretta relazione tra natura e artificiale. La derivazione del termine “Cracking Art” deriva dal verbo inglese “to crack”, ossia spaccarsi, spezzarsi, incrinarsi, cedere, crollare… “Cracking” è il divario dell’uomo contemporaneo, dibattuto tra la naturalità originaria e un futuro sempre più artificiale. Per gli artisti di questa corrente Cracking è quel processo che trasforma il naturale in artificiale, l’organico in sintetico. Un procedimento drammatico se non controllato. Negli anni le loro installazioni sono state richieste in importanti sedi italiane ed internazionali.
The photos taken by the tourists can be published with the hashtag
#valsanzibio, #cracking
In these months, in the Garden, it will be possible to buy small Cracking Art artifacts with the aim of devolving these contribution to the regeneration of art.