We had an amazing experience this morning at school working with Elena Giuliani, expert of ancient art with natural materials! She is the president of the cooperative ARCHEOTRAVO which is an Archaeological Parc of Travo  -open air Museum- near our school and she wrote a short text about this special installation of Land Art.

The reduced forest

Land art experience for installation in the school garden

Themes

– Birth, social motivation and conceptuality of Land art; meaning and places of land art; symbols and meanings

– The concept of nature in Prehistory; art and ritual for the Earth in Prehistory; the Paleolithic “Venuses”; natural materials for art

– Landscape as a canvas of art:

a) the work created on and in the place with the materials it offers, adapting the technique to the materials available

b) inclusion in the natural place of conceptual forms, creations that for purposes must return to the state of nature that generated them, following the life cycle foreseen for all the elements (caducity and non-permanence of the work of art)

 Experience

Branches of recovery from a plant destroyed by intense atmospheric events, destined for disposal, which are reused by the pupils. The colors, recalling the colors of the natural elements, cover the stems of the trees of the Forest. The definition of a graphic symbol will be the plan on the garden level where the reduced trees will be installed. The choice of the symbol will take place by voting within the class group.