Intallation: Tangram Landscapes
Site: Orticolario Cernobbio
Year 2024
With: URGES s.r.l
Design Assistants: Sara Novarese, Michele Ripamonti, Sara Santambrogio, Marta Viganò
Timber Structure: Andrea Gaspari
Direction
Barbara Rosa e Stefano Valagussa
Management
Sara Santambrogio
Technical partnership
Italiana Terricci
Curated By Urges srl
CONCEPT
The installation reflects on the theme of the ground as a thick, shaped surface: stage/scene of the dialogue between man and nature. It is therefore conceived as a confrontation based on mutual, continuous and attentive listening.
A succession of landscapes evoked by different soil treatments refers to the uninterrupted process of modifying the earth to make it habitable.
Very often, when talking about contemporary landscape, the term fragment is used to describe a collection of discontinuous and almost independently grown environmental situations with reduced interactions.
The overall design evokes, as in Tangram, a fragmentation that can be reassembled.
Geometric lines subdivide the space, reproducing miniatures of seemingly discontinuous landscapes, stitched together into a coherent whole by the use of greenery.
The logic behind Tangram allows simple geometric figures to be combined until a recognizable and somehow organic yet abstract figure is achieved. The geometry itself takes on different meanings depending on its position in relation to the other pieces. Although it appears to be a series of fragments, the pieces of the game are created by cutting out a square in precise directions.
In this sense, the installation tries to encourage reflection on two questions.
How do we find a unity or, if you like, a common thread that binds the different fragments together? Can nature take care of this reassembly?
And, on the other hand, how do objects, materials and textures that are recognizable in everyday use change their meaning, significance and capacity to evoke, depending on their context?
Starting from a few simple guidelines, the installation plays with the relationship between inside and outside, in a continuous cross-reference between hall and veranda, darkness and light, horizontal and vertical surfaces.
In an ideal dialogue between sky and earth, green crystals find their place, vertical structures in which the ground becomes light and transparent. Designed as kaleidoscopes, they invite us to discover nature from unusual and ever-changing perspectives.
