The Tepee Garden – The Tepee of the Wind – The Big Tepee
This work was born in 2009 “L’orto d’artista – dalla semina al raccolto” (“The artist’s garden – from sowing to harvesting”, from the idea of Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte) and was realized at the Parco Nord in Milan. In 2014 I moved ‘the vegetable garden’ to the DepurArt Lab Gallery in the park of the Nosedo Treatment Plant, Milan. In order to recall the vegetable garden at the Parco Nord where I had sown, tended and collected the characteristic plants of some Native American tribes, the first element of my installation in the DepurArt Lab Gallery was the Tepee Garden: around the structure of a tepee (the dismountable house of the Indians of the Great Prairies), built with bamboo poles, jasmine plants grow. In 2015, two more elements were added: the Tepee of the Wind and the Big Tepee.
This work of mine is based on the idea of Art in Nature or ‘nature is the artist’. I am referring to the concept of land art as it was conceived in the Arte Sella project. The works are created with all the various materials of nature. Nature itself intervenes in their image, which changes according to the season and with the intervention of nature’s phenomena, and eventually the works unravel and disappear.
I created this work of three elements – all three together form the work – based on the concept of land art. Each of these elements will transform according to the intervention of the phenomena of nature. I can and will only intervene in caring for the plants in the Tepee Garden or cut the grass around or even inside the Tepees (but not necessarily) to make the appearance more ‘pleasing’ and ‘cared for’. As a matter of principle, I do not intervene with new elements because that is the work.
30 January 2016
