Piccoli Mondi – Palazzo del Podestà di Bergamo
The site specific installation by Roberto Ghezzi in the Sala dei Giuristi, in Bergamo, in the context of the I Maestri del Paesaggio Festival, was born from the communion of intentions between his artistic research and the festival’s mission: to enhance the landscape in all its diversity, experience the landscape without intrusions, in a natural dimension to be rediscovered.
For years, Roberto Ghezzi’s work has focused on the a-conflictual encounter between man and nature, in which the artist lends his tools to nature: a canvas, in a non-metaphorical sense, a virgin support prepared by him and installed in the place. chosen for “creation”. Here the artist lets nature “work” over time, with the long times that characterize the natural cycle of things. A dimension in which Man and Environment enter into a profound and original connection.
An unprecedented collaboration in which the landscape leaves its mark on the work through debris carried by water, wind, the impression of the sun and the vegetable pigment, the rubbing of the waters during their passage.
A project that led the artist to travel all over the world, from Alaska to Iceland, South Africa, Norway, Tunisia and Patagonia.
In these journeys, from these encounters, the artist collects seeds, leaves, branches, fragments of the stolen landscape through which the memory of the journey can be reconstructed: small amulets of time and place to re-transport us to elsewhere. The natural materials, collected in different landscapes of Italy and the world, are then stabilized and reassembled inside small cubic plexiglass boxes of 5-10 cm each, showing the GPS coordinates of the collection point on the bottom. .
The site specific installation created by Roberto Ghezzi in the Sala dei Giuristi is made up of the set of about thirty of these works, called “Small worlds”, illuminated with LED lights and placed on a fireproof black fabric: material objects in which nature represents itself without mediation.
Transposing them together in a place, close to each other, to remember journeys and distant lands, is like carrying out a small cosmogony operation: it is generating an imaginary landscape from scratch, ideal and universal, made up of fragments of reality.
The presentation of the exhibition will be on Saturday 11 September at 5.30 pm in the Sala dei Giuristi, Palazzo del Podestà, in Piazza Vecchia. To access you need the green pass and the reservation by Friday at 2.00 pm at this link
https://www.imaestridelpaismi.it/special-project/dettaglio/LANDSCAPE-TALK-00001/?__locale=it