Giovanni Frangi on display with Urpflanze at Villa Carlotta

A dialogue between man and nature is what Giovanni Frangi (Milan, 1958), one of the most important contemporary Italian artists, enacts with his exhibition Urpflanze, scheduled at Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo (Como) from March 24 to June 17, 2018. “Urpflanze” is the “original plant” according to Goethe, the one from which all others derive: the title is already indicative of what will be the themes of an exhibition that is fully immersed in the context of the Villa and that dialogues with both the interior and the exterior (in fact, the Villa has a magnificent park famous for its spring blossoming).

“The relationship with nature,” the presentation reads, "has always constituted the core of Giovanni Frangi’s creative path [...]. The wild nature that is enclosed in the woods, in the mountains, in the great rivers, is the central element of the works with which he debuts at the Venice Biennale and which finds its crowning glory in the great exhibition at the Villa Panza in Varese in 2004. Also fundamental is nature shaped by human intervention, as in the case of the series of works dedicated to the Botanic Garden in Pasadena (2008) or the cycle Alles ist Blatt, the large exhibition with which the new greenhouses and the Biodiversity Garden of the Botanical Garden of Padua were inaugurated in 2014. With the exhibition Urpflanze, conceived especially for Villa Carlotta, Giovanni Frangi investigates the relationship between interior and exterior, which constitutes the unique peculiarity of this place, involving both the rooms of the villa and the park that surrounds it."

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Pictured: Giovanni Frangi, Water Lilies (2015).

Giovanni Frangi on display with Urpflanze at Villa Carlotta

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