"How could I take myself upwards if not moving from below, from what is Earth inside me? I cannot talk about nature without speaking, at the same time, about myself. The encounter with nature always leads me back to me, to what I still don't know and what, knowing, I don't live to the end. Plants have their own way of making themselves present to our spirit. Their touch is sometimes barely perceptible, sometimes decisive, sometimes poignant. Light as a nod or loud as a cry, not always immediately perceived, most of the time unheard or neglected, remains in us. It can remain dormant there for years, until, if proper conditions are given, it resurfaces".
(A. Bonavia Giorgetti, Contemplative openings on bamboo).
And it is this voice, raised strongly in a rare era, that welcomes itself through the windows of one's home, into the intimate room of creation, where creative processes flourish and turn into art. They “organic”, intertwining the streets like the roots of a large tree.We are called to listen to this constant movement in silence.
“The flower room” is not a place closed to the outside world, neither decorated nor embellished; it is a space of connection, of dialogue, of encounter, in which contemporary art is celebrated as a privileged way of feeling and perceiving the invisible. This research unites us to every place and every time, it makes us go back to the roots, it makes us all feel one thing with everything.
“Heaven, earth and I were born at the same time; all beings and I are the same "(Cioanze - 300 BC)
Let's think of chlorophyll photosynthesis. What can be on the human level the analogous faculty of gathering the Light to make Life live? The leaves rotate towards the light, even their chloroplasts move inside the cell. Are our organs rigid or able to vary the position? The elements that the leaf transforms with the energy it receives from the sun are water and carbon dioxide. What do we have to transform? What do we do with what we acquire? Do we hide it, accumulate it or make it available?
"The flower room" was born from the design idea of Dap - Luigia d'Alfonso and Ada Perla - and offers an immersive experience inside the Winter Garden of the Volpicelli Institute, where the history of the place and its spiritual vocation and didactics meet with the contemporary vision of five artists. The deep relationship between outside and inside emerges, the passion for nature: strength and lightness, beauty and ephemeral that the flowers symbolically represent.The flower is the raw material in the "Tangle of Flowers" installation by floral designers Manuela Lopez and Maria Magdalena Wosik; it becomes light and movement in “Oltre… le appearenze”, shots by the photographerMichela Tomiselli,symbiosis sculpted and painted through its characteristic "gestural photography"; there is an explosion of colors, lifeblood in the Plexiglas works by Luigia d’Alfonso, stems and petals like intricate woods where you can sink to generate light. The "site specific" work by Ada Perla, "I live in the Possibility" is a tribute to Emily Dickinson, to the relationship with the universe from the intimacy of the space we inhabit: living your own art. And the intimate empathic relationship that the artist experiences with the garden is essential. The work is designed to be installed in the center of the window overlooking the exhibition.
