A green year for the Reggia di Venaria: 2021 is dedicated to nature

Launching on March 21, to mark the beginning of spring, the Venaria Royal Palace ’s programming for 2021 is entirely dedicated to nature and the passing of the seasons. Venaria Reale’s 2021 will be green and will offer events and initiatives, starting with an online video that was filmed inside the Savoy residence to the notes of Vivaldi’s Primavera.

A rich program of events between art, history and nature, with a focus on the relationship between man and the environment and on sustainability. The Venaria Reale complex since its origins and still today shows an intimate connection between gardens, park, village and surrounding agricultural areas, creating a territorial system that goes beyond the palace that is its main focus.

The Reggia di Venaria ranks high in Italy’s ranking of cultural properties for sensitivity to environmental issues and among the most energy-efficient: a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that meets the international parameters defined in the 2015 Paris COP21 climate change conference.

A major exhibition dedicated to the landscape is planned for the summer, but workshops, educational activities, and guided tours will also be offered focusing on knowledge and raising awareness of the relationship between society and the ecosystem.

On the website www.lavenaria.it and on the Reggia’s social channels, a video filmed for the occasion among the gardens and rooms of the residence will be released on Sunday, March 21: a clip set to music and acted out to the notes of Vivaldi’s Primavera and the reading of the sonnet of the same name that accompanies the concert, entrusted to the voice of actress Lucilla Giagnoni.

From June 21, the Citroniera Juvarriana will host the exhibition Una infinita bellezza - Landscape and Environment in Italy from Romantic Painting to Contemporary Art, organized with GAM - Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino, while with the arrival of autumn, the restoration of the Fountain of Hercules will be inaugurated.

In a year when environmental issues, nature and sustainability are much addressed, these have been chosen as the key to all the events and initiatives of the calendar, which will be divided into four chronological chapters musically titled Largo alla Primavera, Presto è Estate, Adagio d’Autunno and Allegro in Inverno. For each period, the public will be provided with a wide range of activities (in this first phase and until the resumption of visits, they will be online) that are in turn divided into four sections.

DreamGreen: a section dedicated to performances, music, dance and theater, which will have its main moment in the summer with a series of events in the Carriage Courtyard and in various places in the gardens during the usual evening openings, in a fortunate combination of arts and nature;

DiscoverGreen: themed guided tours, animations, meetings, insights, and conferences to learn about the sustainable Reggia, but also to investigate the human-nature relationship, how it has changed over time and how this has affected art and beyond;

CreareGreen: workshops to build and understand, from recycling to tree pruning, from making a work of art to landscaping;

LivingGreen: appointments for wellness, to propose and spread sustainable lifestyles, to popularize the goals of the UN Agenda 2030.

"In devising a cultural project that for the first time connotes the calendar of the Reggia with a leading theme, we have built a varied offer of artistic events based on multiple moments of entertainment and focusing on a single major exhibition consistent with the GREEN theme chosen for 2021, organized with GAM - Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin. Thus was born the exhibition An Infinite Beauty. Landscape and Environment in Italy from Romantic Painting to Contemporary Art, of which I have the honor of being curator, with Virginia Bertone and Riccardo Passoni, and which will open on June 21, the first day of summer: more than 200 works will be exhibited in the imposing spaces of the Juvarra Citroniera, bearing witness to how sensitivity to nature and interest in the unspoiled landscape are central themes in the production of numerous artists of the past, from the pre-Romantic painters of the late 18th century to contemporary masters. We are convinced that it can be a valuable opportunity for the public to admire the work of great artists while reflecting on the conditions of the present," commented Guido Curto, director of the Consortium of Royal Residences of Savoy.

Ph.Credit Dario Fusaro

A green year for the Reggia di Venaria: 2021 is dedicated to nature

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