Art in Albarella
Art shines in Albarella . That art is expressed not only as a place of memory, but as a laboratory open to creativity and innovation. The installations are symbolic of a modern vision of interpreting art that cannot remain in “closed spaces” but simply in “open air.” Here are some examples for you, to “immerse” yourself in art and have a better understanding of the contemporary world .
CRACKING ART, NATURAL ARTIFICIAL
The 2023 installation created by the Cracking Art movement for Albarella Island entitled Naturale Artificiale (Natural Artificial) is the result of research that combines art and nature.
The Cracking Art movement originated thirty years ago with the intent of radically changing the history of art through a strong social and environmental commitment that, combined with the revolutionary use of plastic materials, highlights the increasingly close relationship between natural life and artificial reality. The works are designed to provoke a collective reflection on the issues of the anthropogenic effect on the natural environment through immersive performative actions, where out-of-scale installations – such as the famous coloured animals – invade the most diverse places, from spaces dedicated solely to art to those of everyday life.
Regenerating plastic means rescuing it from toxic and environmentally devastating destruction by giving it new life, making it into works of art means communicating through an innovative aesthetic language expressing a special sensitivity towards nature.
After the temporary 2023 installation of colourful wolves, an elephant, frogs, snails, rabbits, meerkats, a crocodile, swallow and geese, the island has been able to enrich its own art collection with the permanent exhibition of the snails and rabbits as shown on the map.
THE WHITE SEA: IF NATURE IS A WORK OF ART!
The White Sea is the title of the work by the German artist Nils-Udo, created for Albarella Island in 2022 and visible on the green area overlooking the Fiordi Road, opposite Via Undicesima Ovest and close to the Capo Nord Hotel. The inspiration for this work came from the beautiful pampas plants that Nils-Udo discovered in the gardens behind the Golf Hotel. In the centre of this ‘Forest of Pampas’, the artist developed his artistic concept. His vision. With the intention of sharing it and involving all the owners and guests of Albarella.
The special feature of the work is the sole use of natural materials. Nils-Udo‘s motto is ‘The work of art is nature’. Before guests’ eyes, a 27-metre by 4 metre high hillock appears with an expanse of white pampas all over the ground: precisely a ‘white sea’ that White Sea which remains untranslatable. These types of work materialise over time. They are works in the making, linked to the passing of the seasons that determine the “flowering” of the plants that will “explode” the concept of transformation. Observing, one then sees a bed of white marble gravel where a set of seven eggs of about seventy centimetres in length are laid, all in a white and precious Carrara marble.
The materials used are exclusively natural: white pampas, white Carrara marble gravel, white Carrara marble eggs. White is the dominant colour underlining the inspiration. The choice of plant fell on the Pampa plant or Cortaderia Selloana, a species of flowering plant in the Poaceae family. It is known by the common name pampas grass and is native to South America, including the pampas region from which it takes its name.
A powerful and scenic image appears before the eyes. At the same time minimalist and poetic. Evocative. The other surfaces of the landscape, that is the sides of the ‘entrance’ and the back of the hill are covered by a grassy lawn.
The project was created to enhance the natural environment, which coincides with the Island’s green philosophy because art has many forms and in each of them there is inestimable value. It also concludes the broader ‘Immersed in Nature’ project launched back in 2018 to breathe new life into the nature that has long characterised the Island. Because art acts in the present and looks to the future.
EVOLUTION
perceptions. And this is precisely why Albarella Island has chosen the language of “NATURE ART” to convey to its guests an important message of awareness towards nature and to reflect on the importance and fragility of our ecosystem and what can be done to keep biodiversity alive.
The exhibition “Evoluzioni” (Evolutions), curated by Officinadïdue, who are the artists Vera Bonaventura and Roberto Mainardi, known for having created the work “Urlo di Vaia” (Vaia’s scream) after the storm that hit the Asiago Plateau and the Eastern Alps in 2018, installed in the Arte Sella artistic itinerary in Valsugana, is therefore dedicated to raising awareness on climate change, the theme of biodiversity and the human-art-nature dialogue.
On the Albarella Island there is still an art installation from the exhibition, permanently immersed in nature and perfectly blending into its surroundings:
The Waiting
The work was created by Officinadidue, by artists Vera Bonaventura and Roberto Mainardi, experts in Land Art.
A large Oak tree, felled by the 2017 Downburst, lies on a large hospital bed, waiting for saplings to grow from the seeds planted all around it.
The Big Ear
The work was created by Officinadidue, by artists Vera Bonaventura and Roberto Mainardi, experts in Land Art.
A vortex lights up in the Palancana pond, bringing to the surface the sounds of the marine universe: a way of celebrating this fragile underwater world, so important to our existence.
