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The garden is the essential expression of the relationship
between man and nature, the place to inquire this connection that generate the
landscape that encircles us.
What
can it be to say today that a garden is Italian? What
is the essence of the relationship that Italian establish with the nature and
with the landscape around? Soccer
and the playground where it is carried out are the thematic garden for excellence. The
stadium, a fenced area, restricted, isolated from the urban reality that encircles
it, is the place for the "artificial green", in which playing and cultivating
the "passion" can be the most "contemporary and Italian" of
gardens. Often a ball and the will
to play it anywhere; this holds enough power to transform every beach and glade
in a soccer field. That's
really easy: two meshes rested on the grass or tracks in the sand can change the
space completely and the ground is now the "rigor area" of the game,
while the panoramic sight becomes a square in which to aim for the goal. The
Italian garden for the festival of Méties is a fragment of this Italy and of its
relationship with the nature: the wonderful quebequese landscape entering within
the borderline of the garden is transformed and becomes a soft grass, like a carpet
to tread on, built and maintained thanks to continuous and expensive cares. This
soft mantle is raised towards an angle creating a soft hill, on which one is invited
to enjoy the sunset, as at the same time this orographic variation reveals the
artifice that keeps it alive: so much water. Visitors
will be able to subtract this water (contained in small bottles) from the luxurious
industry of recreational activities, not only of soccer fields, and to drink it.
The lines in chalk evoke the reference
to the game of soccer while the goal structure frames the surrounding landscape
as a target: the nature to enjoy, to use and to preserve. Finally,
the national flag on "corner" represents the Italian occupation of a
quebequese ground fragment. |
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