A marshy body of water with flora and fauna: inaugurated Marshy by Eugenio Tibaldi

Fondazione Ermanno Casoli inaugurated at the headquarters of Emf-Fime in Castelfidardo (Ancona), an Elica Group company, thesite-specific environmental installation by Eugenio Tibaldi (Alba, 1977), winner of the 20th edition of the Ermanno Casoli Prize.

The work, entitled Marshy and curated by Marcello Smarrelli, is a metaphorical installation of a place of transformations and changes, a kind of primordial habitat where life is generated, as well as an image of a diverse community.

“Always attracted by marginal dynamics and aesthetics, by the complex relationship between economy and contemporary landscape,” says the curator of the Prize, Marcello Smarrelli, "Eugenio Tibaldi, for the Marshy project, carries out a research that focuses on the concept and role of waste in the economy and in everyday reality. The defect and the consequent attempt at improvement are seen by the artist as part of evolution, in a tension aimed at control, efficiency and precision. In his projects in different parts of the world, he theorizes a sense of the margin understood more as a mental condition than a geographical one. Through this practice, the artist activates a processual dynamic that, applied to artistic research, brings forth forms of alternative aesthetics to traditional practices."

“The Ermanno Casoli Prize has a long tradition and in two decades has represented the cultural transformation and of doing business by bringing together art and innovation,” added Elica President Francesco Casoli. “The Marshy project expresses these values and renews the ability of the Foundation and its artists to read our time and interpret its main cultural and social phenomena through works that raise awareness and create a common consciousness, towards the main challenges of our present and future.”

Marshy takes the form of a 12-meter-diameter circular body of water, with three walkways indicating three directions in space and referring to as many components, identified by the artist, as characteristics of the area under consideration: nature, history andindustry. Emerging from the water is vegetation characteristic of a marshy environment: shrubs, bamboo, flowers, populated by a colony of two hundred birds; all entirely constructed through the reuse of company production waste and the involvement in various ways of all Elica Group employees. Completing the installation is a sound insert reminiscent of birdsong, conceived by the artist with musician Andrea Naspi and made with an accordion thanks to a collaboration with the historic Castelfidardo-based company Pigini Fisarmoniche.

Photo by Lorenzo Morandi.

A marshy body of water with flora and fauna: inaugurated Marshy by Eugenio Tibaldi

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