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Artist guso5/1/2023 It seeks the right environment to sow that utopia – a sanctuary for the alternative spirit to the increasingly industrialized world – which they had not been able to cultivate elsewhere.United by a common ideal, on the mountain they renamed “ Verita“(Truth), Henry Oedenkoven from Antwerp, pianist Ida Hofmann from Montenegro, artist Gusto Gräser and brother Karl Gräser from Transylvania created a colony. Ticino was a pole of attraction for those who at the beginning of the last century were looking for an alternative life to the two blocks – capitalist and communist – which were then taking shape. Johanna Gschwend and Moritz Hossli will present a video of the open dialogue between the work of Gagliardi and Cordero and the surrounding environment, documenting their approach to the original spirit of Monte Verità. In addition, in the library of Baron von der Heydt, the artist will modify the space with vaults of books sewn, engraved, carved, like bricks of a paper architecture. Marco Cordero, on the other hand, made a cast of the famous rock overlooking Lake Maggiore, one of the magnetic points of Monte Verità, and that of a stone wall, a semantic sampling of a portion of nature. Starting from lace and embroidery, Francesca Gagliardi will create bronze and aluminum shields, an allegory of a strong and willful femininity, and a monumental sculpture in the shape of a lipstick, a totemic fetish that alludes to the fragility of beauty and the stubborn female steadiness. The protagonists of this edition are four Italian and Swiss artists – Francesca Gagliardi, Marco Cordero, Johanna Gschwend and Moritz Hossli – who after their residency last summer will present a series of works inspired by the identity of the place. Every year, the Monte Verità Foundation in Ascona (Switzerland), despite the many unknowns due to the pandemic, presents a series of events strictly connected to the history and nature of this extraordinary place and to its vocation for research and experimentation entrusted to contemporary artists.Īmong the events, the Giardini in Arte review is scheduled for May, inspired by the relationship between art and nature that has characterized the activity of Monte Verità since its inception.
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