SPAZIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART GALLERY
COMUNICATO STAMPA
GIULIANO MAURI
4 SETTEMBRE – 29 OTTOBRE 2010
“ Tra Natura, Spiritualità and Utopia "
Opening Saturday, September 4 18:00
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Presentation JOHN BONANNO
“ Tra Natura, Spiritualità e Utopia ” é il titolo della mostra che lo Spazio Ophen Virtual Art Gallery dedica, a circa un anno dalla morte, a Giuliano Mauri, uno dei più significativi e straordinari artisti italiani, dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi, che per questa occasione presenta 50 opere, tra progetti grafici, installazioni ambientali e realizzazioni teatrali.
Giuliano Mauri nasce a Lodi Vecchio nel 1938. Deve la sua notorietà ai suoi numerosi poetici interventi ambientali, definiti come architetture naturali. Ha partecipato alla Biennale di Venezia nel 1976, alla Triennale di Milano nel 1992, alla Biennale di Penne nel 1994. Operando con rami e tronchi di legno costruisce edifici fantasticamente real. The condition, tied to the natural decline of the material used, is that nature will fill the gaps left by the decay of the wood and then doing a sort of dialogue with the artist.
Among his works are the imaginary wind caressed by Mills, La Scala del Paradiso, the Wood Island at the source of Tormo in Lodi. In Germany, Gorliz, and Poland, to Sgorzelec, achieved Observatories estimative. His most famous and evocative work is probably the plant's Cathedral in 2001 for Arte Sella. In 2001 he made also the scene of Norma in the arena of the Sferisterio Andrico for scenes of James and directed by Daniele Abbado. In 2006, builds Aviary for the human in the valley of Sighs, the Park of Monza. In July 2008, concludes and opens the fascinating Soradore Bridge - San Vigilio to Padernello village of Borgo San Giacomo (Brescia). Is carried out in 2010 the great "Cathedral Plant" at the Park Orobie (Bg.)
A year after the death of this interesting artist (Lodi, May 29, 2009), to date there is still no complete documentation of his work. This exhibition is the first prerequisite for a sort of online catalog of his works and also a special tribute to his research work. The retrospective was born at the same time that the opening side of the great "CATHEDRAL VEGETALE” realizzata quest’anno alle pendici del Monte Arera, nel Comune di Oltre il Colle, in località Plassa (Grumello) a cura del Parco delle Orobie Bergamasche e del Comune di Oltre il Colle (4 Settembre 2010).
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“I SOGNI D’OROBIA”
(dedicata a Giuliano Mauri)
di G. Bonanno
Some nights I find myself walking
dell'Arera on the slopes, over the hill,
where dreams are never of tin and not of stone.
Dreams of Orobia are unusual appearances that they know they spell,
where the wind 's imaginary blows bully.
admissions are absorbed tales of Gothic
smelling aromas still obscure.
Cathedrals are delicate, made to live the short
and slow breathing of another new season.
are mysterious upheavals of the soul,
where silences become old
in deep blacks and green nature.
the consciousness of a utopian vision
OF JOHN BONANNO
"... WHY IS THE REAL WORK IS NOT IN ITS FINAL FORM BUT IN THE SERIES OF APPROXIMATIONS TO ACHIEVE IT." - (Italo Calvino, American Lectures).
Soon the man is turning his environment where he lives in an increasingly accelerated pace, now the Environmental Challenge coincides with our own existence, unless they show that the moral sentiment towards nature almost forgotten and its extraordinary possibilities. Gia 'in 1978, with the Manifesto of the Rio Negro, Pierre felt Restany la necessità di chiedersi: “Quale tipo di arte, quale sistema di linguaggio può suscitare un simile ambiente? Di certo un naturalismo di tipo essenzialista che si oppone al realismo della tradizione realista. Il naturalismo implica la più grande disponibilità dell’artista e la più grande apertura snaturando il meno possibile. In fondo nello spazio-tempo della vita di un uomo, la natura è la sua misura, la sua coscienza, la sua sensibilità”. Si sente sempre più il bisogno, oggi, di un rapporto più intenso con la natura. Uno dei pochi artisti che ha lavorato su tale versante dell’arte è stato Giuliano Mauri che diceva: “Agli inizi del terzo millennio, nel tentato passaggio da un’epoca di ideologie nemiche a quella di ricerca di un ideale di serenità e armonia, l’uomo rivela alle sorgenti del Bisenzio un tempio della natura. Per farne un luogo più caro a tutte le popolazioni di questa valle”. L’artigiano, architetto Giuliano Mauri è un artista di non facile classificazione lui stesso si definisce un "carpentiere che costruisce scale, mulini, case, ponti, giostre, cattedrali, fiumi, isole, boschi, cieli . ”Le strutture in legno di Giuliano Mauri - diceva P. Restany - hanno la complessità dei cavalli di frisi e delle reti di profondità: sono supporti di bandiere o di pali di mulini a vento che rinviano alla nostra coscienza dell’immaginario”. Protagonista indiscusso nel panorama international contemporary art, Mauri has been working with sensitivity to the already precarious boundary between art and architecture, acting on the landscape and developing its projects according to issues of the selected site, building "unnecessary work" but of an unusual charm. Architecture "spiritual magic" - as someone wrote - "that becomes trapped, poetry, spell, able to carry in the confines of a nature that becomes a refuge and a dream." Alberto Morelli writes: "I find that its location is among the few who, under the so-called contemporary art, has the capacity to excite and evoke utopia possible. His quest for contact with living plant is in the form of a rare intensity and for anything intellectual. " All art is born of a Mauri assiduous utopian and "spiritual", a fertile imaginary wind blows constantly on his extraordinary installations, created by a ray of light nostalgic Gothic and designed to share the nature of some intense season. His works some have simply call land art, some even landscape architecture, emphasizing the privileged compared with the natural environment in a process that does not end with the intervention of the artist and not only with the work over. Using natural materials, Giuliano Mauri produces architectures "provisional" influenced by the intervention of the slow but relentless time and nature, related to the natural decay of the installation and the corresponding growth of new vegetation, just as happens to so-called "Cathedrals" which keeps a continuous dialogue. Died May 29, 2009, became famous for its natural architecture, made of branches and tree trunks. Among his most famous works is the "Cathedral plant" designed to "Artesella 'in Borgo Valsugana in 2001, in a clearing at the" Hut Costa "in Val di Sella (Trento), the other one Oltre il Colle in Bergamo, which is much larger and more fascinating. That completed in 2001, the size of a true Gothic cathedral comprises three aisles formed by more than three thousand eighty columns with twisted branches, twelve meters high and one meter in diameter, within each one was planted a young hornbeam. The structure has a rectangular base of 82 meters by 15 meters, a height of 12 meters and covers an area of \u200b\u200b1,230 square meters. The work was designed in the late 1980s and published in Germany, was also presented at the Milan Triennale, but had never been implemented because of its great structural complexity. Looking at this it is impossible not to think of the abbey of San Galgano in Siena, or some of the French Gothic style cathedral, except that in these works is not natural Mauri l’intervento architettonico e definitivo dell’uomo ma la richiesta esplicita di un contributo attivo da parte della natura affinché possa sviluppare e concludere totalmente l’evento. In Arte Sella, Mauri ha dato l’avvio alla nascita di una grande cattedrale che si concluderà tra vent’anni. Il suo intervento si è limitato a costruire dei sostegni-gabbie in legno, all’interno di queste strutture ha piantato ottanta carpini, che cresceranno (di 50 centimetri l’anno), seguendo le forme delle colonne. Con i tagli e le potature saranno adattate a formare una vera e propria Cattedrale Vegetale. Nel corso degli anni le colonne-sostegno costruite per accompagnare la crescita delle piante marciranno e lasceranno il posto ai carpini. Tra vent’anni, secondo l’artista, i carpini costituiranno una cattedrale completamente naturale. L’artista, quindi, non è il protagonista assoluto dell’opera ma cerca una collaborazione fattiva con la natura affinché l’opera possa completarsi totalmente. L’altra “Cattedrale Verde” è stata iniziata solo nel 2010, a Oltre il Colle nel Parco delle Orobie Bergamasche, in base a dei progetti che l’artista ci aveva lasciato prima di morire. Ma cos’è la «cattedrale verde»? E’ un’opera d’arte, realizzata con alberi e rami, che assumerà, appunto, la forma di una cattedrale, a cinque campate, alta da 8 a 15 metri, lunga 29 wide and 24 to 650 square meters, 5 naves and 42 columns. In a few months you will see a wooden structure, with the first plants, hornbeam and beech trees about six feet high. Then the "cathedral will grow from year to year, taking the form of Gothic architecture of great size. We will never know how you will present at the end of the event, we know that only volumes within a generation or so, all support-wooden crates disappear by decomposition, because of the relentless weather and the seasons, there will be only the 42 beech trees planted within the structures of the pillars will be free to grow and their alignment with state intervention human creative and active cooperation and generous nature.
(This last work of Giuliano Mauri, who comes from a completely spontaneous and natural process, is the final act that completes and integrates all the work done over many years to this modest and refined poet of our day)
John Bonanno
- WORK IN PROGRESS -
The "Green Cathedral" on Mount Arera
Over the Hill - After two years of waiting is ready "green cathedral" willed by the Park Orobie. Designed by the artist Giuliano Mauri Lodi (died 2009), situated in the area Grumello, about 1,200 meters above sea level, on the road that leads from Plassa the slopes of Mount Arera, over the hill. The wooden structure supporting the first plants will be ready by the end of August. The Cathedral High Plant 8 to 15 meters long, 29 wide and 24 to 650 square meters, 5 naves and 42 columns of twisted branches, up to fifty feet high, within each column was planted a beech tree. The plants grow fifty centimeters per year, with annual pruning in time will form a true cathedral. About twenty years, nature will prevail, the devices built to accompany the growth of the plants will rot and give way to beech trees, green spaces where architecture that is no longer necessary to corrode. The process, the design, construction and evolution is in constant motion.
But what the "green cathedral" or "cathedral plant" which is located in Valle Serina? It is a work of art, made from trees and branches, who will, in fact, the shape of a cathedral, with five spans. A combination of art, nature and spirituality, wanted to enhance the upstream Arerai. Three months time and you can see the wooden structure, beautiful in itself already with the first plants, hornbeam and other native trees, about two meters high. Then the "cathedral" with its network of branches, will grow from year to year, taking on different colors depending on the season. "
A path, that of the "cathedral", however, begun two years ago: it was in July 2008 and, in places Plass, was built and opened in grand style, the entrance gate of the structure. "But times have lengthened. Giuliano Mauri had already done a survey and realize what he had in mind: those ideas will now be taken forward by his son Roberto and Paola Tognon.
Mauri, who died in May 2009, became famous because of its natural architecture, made of branches and tree trunks. Among his most famous works another 'green cathedral', one built in Borgo Valsugana in 2001, in Val di Sella (Trento) for the exhibition of contemporary art "Artesella. "But what will be built in addition the package will be even bigger.
BOARD
The "green cathedral" is located in the City of Over the Hill, in the locality Plassa (Grumello), along the road leading sull'Arera where is the refuge "Shack 2000. 5 naves and 42 columns, 1,800 poles, fir, chestnut branches 600 6 000 meters of core and 42 branches of beech trees, height 13 m max aisles
length 28.5 m, width 24 m to the "cathedral plant" does not material is used that is not wood and does not come from the woods Orobie. Pali spruce –
Nel cantiere è previsto l’utilizzo di 1.800 pali di abete. Rami – Sono di castagno i 600 rami impiegati per costruire la «cattedrale».
Nocciolo – È stato calcolato che occorrano rami di nocciolo per la lunghezza di circa 5-6.000 metri.
Faggio – L’opera sarà completata con la messa in posa dentro le colonne di 24 piccole piante di faggio.
Quota – La «cattedrale vegetale» si trova all’altezza di 1.345 metri.
Misure – Lunghezza della «cattedrale»: 28,5 metri; larghezza: 24 metri; altezza Maximum: 13 meters, minimum height: 5 feet, number of aisles: 5; nave width: 5.50 meters, maximum height of the nave: 13 m, width of the first two aisles: 4.50 meters ; maximum height of the first two aisles: 8 meters wide aisles External: 4 meters height aisles External: 5 meters, number of columns: 42, number of stems per column: 8, column diameter: 1.50 meters .
Location The "green cathedral" is located in the City of Over the Hill, in the locality Plassa (Grumello), along the road leading sull'Arera, where is the refuge "Shack 2000»
Come si presenterà alla fine? Non lo sapremo mai perché nel giro di una generazione o poco tutto il legno sparirà, decomposto dall’azione delle stagioni e delle intemperie; resteranno i 42 alberi di faggio che, piantati all’interno delle strutture dei pilastri, saranno liberi di crescere. Non più presente l’intreccio originale dei vari elementi in legno, saranno i faggi sempre più robusti a indicare con il loro allineamento la mano dell’uomo, in un processo del tutto naturale.
Il 2010 è stato scelto per il completamento e l’inaugurazione dell’opera in quanto proclamato dall’Onu Anno della biodiversity.
BIOGRAPHY: GIULIANO MAURI
Lodivecchio Giuliano Mauri was born in 1938 and has lived in Lodi until May 29, 2009). At the end of the sixties had come into contact with the leading avant-garde art movements in Italy. The Seventies saw him as the lead in environmental performance. His videos and performances have been shown in several galleries: The nut of Padova, the towpath in Rome, Toselli, Milan and Brescia Cavellini. In the same year he presented his works to museums of modern art in Bologna, Modena and Warsaw. He has also stated il suo lavoro alla Biennale di Venezia (1976). Nel 1978 con le sue enormi scale è presente alla mostra 'Metafisica del Quotidiano' presso il Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna . Nel 1980 costruisce i “Mulini a Vento” del tutto inutili. La casa “Raccoglitore dell'Uomo” è stata creata nel 1981 (Bergamo, chiesa di Sant'Agostino). L'anno seguente ha costruito l'imponente Scala del Paradiso (140m. di lunghezza e 10 m. di altezza). Questa consisteva in una serie di rami conficcati nel terreno legato alle estremità con dello spago. Lo stesso lavoro è stato anche presentato alla Galleria Mercato del Sale a Milano. Nel 1984 ha iniziato le costruzioni vegetali “Altari” sulle rive dell'Adda, a Lodi. Nel corso dello stesso anno espone “Zeppelin” alla Galleria Quanta a Milano e costruisce “La Città del sole”. Nel 1985 ha partecipato per la prima volta a 'Milanopoesia' presentando il lavoro “Accampamento padano”. A Sassello, nei pressi di Savona, costruisce “ La casa dell'Uomo”. Nel 1986 ha realizzato “La terra del cielo” nella chiesa di San Carpoforo a Milano. Nel catalogo, Vittorio Fagone definisce questa arte come 'in natura' nel senso pieno del termine. Nel 1987 ha creato ”Le Trombe del Paradiso” a Pegognaga (Mantova). Le “Spore vegetali” vengono sistemati a Villa Barzino vicino a Genova nel 1988, mentre i “Canti dell'esilio d'Occidente” to Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna. In 1988 he built "The Wood" at the source of Tormo in the province of Lodi. The following year he was present at the exhibition "Shakti 1" in Copenhagen and at the same time takes part in 'Milanopoesia' with 'Camp Po 2. " In 1991 he began a series of 'nests' (Monteciccardo, Pesaro). In 1992 he returned to Lodi with "The Field of Two hundred Pertiche" and "The Tree of One Hundred Nests." He was invited to the 37th Milan Triennial. The "Altars plants" and "Creativity" are created in Borgo Valsugana (Trento). In June 1993, is in the 'Nature in Art Symposium' in Hannover. In Chicago he was invited to 'Athenaeum-Museum Architectural Design IV (Italian Pavilion). in Denmark, Tranekær, builds "Aeolian Harp" for the 'project Tikon'. Cottbuns A, near Dresden, he created a great cathedral Plant. Pens Biennale in 1994. In 1997 he built the "House of Memory" on Laumier Sculpture, with sketches, models and drawings is at the Museum of St Louis, Missouri, 1998 USA.Nel participates in "European Art and Nature Triennial" Castle Dragsholm, Danimarca.Nel 1999 created the 'Footprints' on the Stour Valley Art Project at King's Wood, Challock in Kent. A Sgorzelec, realizes the "Observers estimate", Neysa RIVER (2001). For Arte Sella born in 2001, the most famous work and atmospheric Mauri, "The Cathedral plant", in Val di Sella, consisting of three aisles by 80 columns of twisted branches, 12 meters high and one meter in diameter, within each was planted a young hornbeam. In 2001 he made also the scene of Norma in the arena of the Sferisterio Andrico for scenes of James and directed by Daniele Abbado. In 2003, in front of the Triennale di Milano exposes the ball "Zenobia" built for the exhibition dedicated to Calvino's novel Invisible Cities "by Giuliano Mauri with four branches of chestnut intertwined and placed in front of the Triennale. In 2004, realizes the "Walkway of jasmine lost on the river, with wood and jasmine plants. In 2006 built the "Aviary for human" in the valley of Sighs, the Park of Monza. In July 2008, concludes and opens the fascinating Soradore Bridge - San Vigilio to Padernello village of Borgo San Giacomo (Brescia). Within Territoria Luogomano # 3 opens in the "Amphitheatre of the Val di Bisenzio" at the Contemporary Art of Complex Cantagallo. "The amphitheater was one, if not the last work he created. Also in 2008 made the two bridges at the Castle of Padernello (BS), respectively 50 and 30 feet, seem to have an almost ghostly: the network of wood that rises by the way is a magical maze that is isolated from the surrounding space but can transport you within the confines of nature become legendary, a dream of escape from reality and retreat into the past. For a long time on dialysis, died May 29 in Lodi in 2009.
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