Natura: Morte e Resurrezione. 24 artisti internazionali verso un ecologia della mente 17th September - 5th November 2006

Exhibition on contemporary art with installations, sculptures, paintings and photographs. It highlights some very important social and environmental issues: the continuous devastation of mankind towards nature, the positive and negative mutations of vegetation, the disappearance of animal and botanical species, the constant and increasing use of polluting materials. We have therefore asked all exhibiting artists to keep in mind these issues for the creation of their works of art to be placed in the bioenergetic gardens of the Borgo. A space for transformation and elevation of the human spirit, a garden that helps the relationship with nature and ones soul. A kind of “new landscape”, which stimulates the curiosity and the emotions of the public on biodegradable, ecological, recyclable, soft and probably ephemeral (it is the great theme of the 20th century), able to transform the perception of the environmental context also due to the incredible combinations of colours and forms which can rise and hence make the stigmata appear of a reinvented “beauty”.

Artists on show: Joseph Beuys,  Nicola Bolla, Enrica Borghi, Mario Bottinelli Montandon, Andrea Caretto e Raffaella Spagna, Filippo Centenari, Davide Coltro, Paolo Consorti, Piero Gilardi, Paolo Grassino, Fathi Hassan, Luigi Mainolfi, Vittorio Messina, Nino Migliori, Dennis Oppenheim, Giuseppe Penone, Antonella Piro, Vettor Pisani, Margot Quan Knight, Tea Taramino, Luisa Valentini, Jan Van Oost, Jelena Vasiljev.

Catalogue: The bilingual (Italian/English) catalogue, with all works on show and clear-cut bibliographical notes, includes contributions by the Head Department of the Cultural Heritage of the Province of Ascoli Piceno Olimpia Gobbi, the art critic Marisa Vescovo, the curator Lucrezia de Domizio Durini for the homage to Joseph Beuys, the young art critic Gloria Gradassi, the President of the Association Giulia Panichi Pignatelli. Colour images. Purchase price: € 15,00.

Institutional Support: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Regione Marche, FAI

Sponsors: Banca Popolare di Ancona, Fainplast, Hydrowatt Spa, Simplast, Europlak, Eco Services

Press Office: Maria Bonmassar, Rome.