Meeting-clash between Nature and Art in the Pianamola Garden

Hidden in the verde. Kidnapped by nature. Cielo, trees, fiorivegetation that grows spontaneously, and an expanse of cyststhe typical flowers of Tyrrhenian duneswhich do not exist elsewhere. It’s the Pianamola gardenin the municipality of Bassano Romanocreated in 1994 by Elisa Resegottiwho chose to live here, after having experienced, as a film producer, the festival glories of Seventh Art. The house is stuck between branches, bushes, shrubs. The background is the Lake Braccianoframed by three cypresses, and on clear days the sea ​​of ​​Cerveterithe beaches known to people over the centuries Etruscans. And “Etruscan” are the three steps of dry tuff arranged in a semicircle, to embrace – citing the ancient theatre – a centuries-old oakmajestic and protective, like a The genius of the place. To speak of the sacredness of the clearing, under the tree a black, volcanic stone rained down from who knows where and who knows when.

Resegotti cure the gardenlistens to his breathing, flanked by Hans Hermann KoopmannGerman biologist artist. And the daily, cosmic contact with the place has developed, in addition to his botanical skills, his artistic self. Always inspired by the realities of the territory. Thus even a palisade upstream of the estate – which slopes down in terraces, with sinuous paths – has become “Paliss-ART”, an artistic interpretation created with the material that comes out of the earth.

La mostra One Minute Tree Revisited 2026

And yet Elisa is in the world. And he doesn’t intend for his habitat to be a Eden separated from History. It’s the meaning of show that he cared for Pianamolawhich followed the exploit of the flowering of the cysts. “One Minute Tree Revisited 2026” the title (until June 19, www.pianamola.org), with works installed by thirty-five artiststo replicate the idea of ​​the 2010 exhibition. The common thread is “themeeting-clash – explains – between Nature e until“, intercepting “the relationships that link the first two with the Landscape and, I suggest, with the History”.

For the rest, absolute freedom for the artistsboth in the choice of the means with which to convey one’s message – painting, sculpture, multimedia installations, graphics, drawing, performance – and the corner of the garden in which to place the work. A regeneration of the was born landscape: the path that everyone can take along the paths of Pianamola it becomes a pilgrimage in search of meaning, because each work you come across – well illustrated by the cards that accompany it, a unique but necessary didactic intrusion – invites reflection, pause.

Installations and works among the trees

L’tree it is mostly the support, the living anchor. Paola Babini – already present since 2010 with a permanent installation, “The bionic tree” – in this review 2026 proposes “The echo of the branches” by hanging a thin, apparently reflective sheet from the oak trunk in which slender black branches are woven like embroidery against the background of a glass architecture.

The sense of the sacred in nature

The sense of sacred lost and found in Nature is what it suggests Mauro Magni that in the “Green Grotto“makes it come down from the branches”To be left“golden, extemporaneous but symbolic “fruits” and “flowers”, mindful of the miracle. Assertive presences, primordial totems are those of Mara van Wees entitled “Uni(ci)ta“and rested to talk on a small clearing. It alludes to the spirit hovering in the landscape Samuel Vesuvius which places its “Silver Ghost”, a little ghost of thin metal, smiling and evanescent.

They come down from branchesGuests” Of Paul Wiedmerphosphorescent vines anchored with carabiners and who knows if they are used to go up there or down, if the strangers are human beings or wild animals, or insects, or lizards, or birds. The polychrome terracottas blend in with the flowery meadow Mirna Mannilike white stones studded on the surface with polychrome pointillism, and you think they fell prodigiously from the sky. And to the sky the “Astrolabe” – prayer and science in the austere metal gray – by Tommaso Cascella. Alone and happy is the “Tree (woman) embracing itself” from the Resegottiwho says she wanted to save and give an extra soul to a trunk of acacia dealbata that the neighbor had asked her to remove because it was invading his property. Thus the vegetal artist relaunches the imagination of Nature on the intransigence of those who reject it.

Music and performances in the garden

They are elsewhere musica e sounds. The soft yet deep voice of Massimo Napoli he stars in a video “Cunning shrubs“, the verses of Claudia Quintieri: “Tale of summer, spring/ In fearless flowers/: Accelerated by lymphatic conjunctions/ Blazing roots/ Imaginative sections:/ They satiate the bees/ Scattered in the empyrean / Rambling into commemorations. / Cunning shrubs”. And the same Napoli – artist and actor – became the protagonist during the vernissage of the performance “The psychology of the tree” which is also the title of a series of his rigorous introspective pencil and pastel drawings on paper exhibited in the gallery-hall of the Pianamola garden.

The Koopmann installation

He strikes and warns “To the joy”, the installation of Hans Hermann Koopmann: three black curved tubes emerge from the ground, their mouths circled in orange, the recurring color of Koopman because, he explains, a Berlin it is the color of ambulancesor the means for those in immediate need of help. They are a sort of trumpets that emerge from the bowels of the Planet: they spread the immortal notes ofOde to Joy Of Beethovenwhich is the anthem ofEuropean Union. But then they make a painful sound, la Voice of the Earthwith the lament of those buried in the present decimated by guerre.