For some time now, the conditions imposed upon us have been shaping our lives. Whether it’s the evening curfew, the threat of the virus or direct restrictions on our personal freedom, we don’t know what will happen or when we will get out of this. We will get out of it. But we are constantly put to the test as we try to redefine our position and adjust the boundaries of our identity, in a scenario where it is hard to imagine what landscape we will find when we turn on the light again. In such conditions of uncertainty, VIVERE DI PAESAGGIO Is an unstoppable cry that brings to life thoughts of freedom. What will be the new way of living off, and with, the landscape? What radical change will our way of life undergo, and, consequentially, what point of view will we be able to rediscover in relation to the landscape that surrounds us? Artists respond to the vulnerability and confusion generated by such a condition. The uncertainty and instability that we experience in our daily lives is expressed in their works, yet in this case, their invitation is like a joyful exit towards the unknown. For it has been too long, since we do not think about thinking the landscape in Europe.
The exhibition came about after a long period of dialogue with the artists on the issue, and it proposes four ways of understanding what concerns the thoughts around the notion of ‘landscape’ for each of their personal artistic practices today. All the artists live and work here in Italy. Filippo Bisagni, Sergio Sarra, James Hillman and Giulia Mangoni belong to different generations, each putting forward their own point of view, indicating a sense of “new perspectives within the framework, ones which are presented as new tools through which to think about it and, above all, through which give it thought.” (Jullien, Vivre de paysage, Gallimard, 2014).
The exhibition features the works by Filippo Bisagni; James Hillman; Giulia Mangoni and Sergio Sarra and is curated by Mirta d’Argenzio
