Contemporary art for the first time in the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo: Cascella and Scarmiglia on display

For the first time,contemporary art enters the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo (Viterbo), and it does so with the exhibition Capsula del Tempo, a review of sculptures by Tommaso Cascella and Sandro Scarmiglia. From July 16 to October 23, it will be possible to admire the contemporary creations of two sculptors who since the 1990s have made sculpture and art their reason for living, between research and contamination. Both from Rome, Tommaso Cascella and Sandro Scarmiglia, with their sculptures, want to re-propose the disorientation that every patron can feel and undergo in the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo, thus crossing a temporal bridge that reconnects directly to this place. Capsula del Tempo thus wants to create a new mystery in a confrontation and dialogue and, with a temporal short-circuit, makes its own the coded message left by Orsini.

It is 1552 when Pierfrancesco Orsini, known as Vicino, invents his Sacred Wood ’Sol per sfogare il core’ beginning the construction of one of the most enigmatic places of the sixteenth century. In the small fiefdom of Bomarzo, Orsini created a surreal, extraordinary and disorienting garden, a hermeneutic labyrinth. In contemporary times Salvador Dalí first, then Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle and many other art and cultural figures visited and were fascinated by the world of Vicino Orsini, which since the 1950s became the property of and then recovered by the Bettini family. A place that makes art its tool but also its only end.

Cascella and Scarmiglia, for their archaic forms, use iron and concrete to date our technological and precarious time. In a conversation of two - or rather three considering Vicino - they take up the fantastic and the alchemical of the Park, incorporating everything in an intense and fluid play of form and light, in absolute relation and harmony with space. It is into this dimension that the Time Capsule visitor will enter: the goal is to make him walk through this mystery and timeless art, and in contact with other dimensions.

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The exhibition is the result of a joint initiative between Sacro Bosco and the Cultural Association ’Arte e Benessere’ of Bomarzo, and anticipates a dense program of events for the five-hundredth anniversary of Vicino Orsini’s birth, which will occur in 2023.

Sandro Scarmiglia was born in Rome on December 3, 1964. He graduated in painting from the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera in 1990. In the same year he began his collaboration as ass. costume and set designer for television programs in Rai and Fininvest. In 1996 he landed in cinema as an assistant with the film Luna e l’altra by M.Nichetti, collaborated in the realization of major events and conventions, and later signed sets and costumes for theatrical performances. With A.m.r.e.f. and Dulcimer she participates in the project for the recovery of street children in Nairobi, she creates sets and costumes for the musical Mgona mtaani by Giovanni Lo Cascio that debuts in Italy at Umbria jazz in 2009. For SKY he signs the sets for the docufilms Caravaggio l’anima e il sangue, directed by Jesus Garces Lambert, and Raffaello amori e passioni, directed by Massimo Ferrari. Parallel to his professional career as a set designer, he has always kept alive his deep interest in his own and intimate plastic research, eventually landing in sculpture.

Tommaso Cascella was born in Rome in 1951 to the painter Annamaria Cesarini Sforza and the sculptor Pietro; he painted since childhood in the studios of his father and uncle Andrea. After studying at the Faculty of Architecture, which he attended for a few years, he opened the art print shop and publishing house Etrusculudens together with his first wife Emma Politi in 1973. The passion for printing finds him even today with the new publications of the "Flying Deer collaborating with artists and poets. His first solo painting exhibition was in 1985 and he made his debut with sculpture in 1991 at the Mara Coccia Gallery in Rome. To date he has had about 150 solo exhibitions and countless group shows and is represented in numerous museums and private collections.

Contemporary art for the first time in the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo: Cascella and Scarmiglia on display

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