Turin sees the birth of the first urban forest dedicated to women artists

The Bosco delle Artiste (Wood of Women Artists) is born in Turin, in the “Fergat” garden in front of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo headquarters.

The new urban forest is part of the weTree project, which aims to promote the development, birth and care of green areas in Italian cities by naming them after women who have distinguished themselves in society.

Thirteen Liriodendron tulipifera trees were planted in the garden in April, creating the first urban forest dedicated to women artists. The forest will be inaugurated on June 30 and will be enriched with eight more Liquidambar stiracyflua plants in the fall.

The initiative is supported by the City of Turin, which provided and planted the trees, and is the work of landscape agronomists Stefania Naretto and Chiara Otella, founders of the Lineeverdi studio.

In addition to increasing the greenery with a view to sustainability, the Bosco delle Artiste will become a space dedicated to the educational and social activities of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; an open-air place of exchange with the community, devoted to environmental, artistic and creative education and gender equality. Taking care of the Bosco will be the Foundation’s Education Department. Among the artists’ trees, activities and workshops will be offered for everyone.

Each new tree will be given the name of a female artist. The public will be able to choose twenty names from a list of women artists indicated by the Foundation by sending an email to info@fsrr.org with the subject line 20 names for the Women Artists’ Forest by May 16, 2021.

The following are the names of the women artists: Carla Accardi (Oct. 9, 1924 - Feb. 23, 2014), Anni Albers (June 12, 1899 - May 9, 1994), Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 - July 26, 1971), Louise Bourgeois (Dec. 25, 1911 - May 31, 2010), Leonora Carrington (April 6, 1917 - May 25, 2011), Ligya Clark (October 23, 1920 - April 25, 1988), Sonia Delanauy (November 14, 1885 - December 5, 1979), Helen Franhenthaler (December 12, 1928 - December 27, 2011), Chiara Fumai (February 22, 1978 - August 16, 2017), Natal’ja Sergeevna Goncarova (July 3, 1881 - October 17, 1926), Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), Dame Barbara Hepworth (January 10, 1903 - May 20, 1975), Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954), Kathe Kollowitz (July 8, 1867 - April 22, 1945), Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984), Maria Lai (September 27, 1919 - April 16, 2013), Maria Lassing (September 8, 1919 - May 6, 2014), Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 - July 16, 1997), Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 - December 16, 2004), Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 - September 8, 1985), Marisa Merz (May 23, 1926 - July 19, 2019), Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988), Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986), Meret Oppenheim (October 6, 1913 -November 15, 1985), Gina Pane (May 24, 1939 - March 5, 1990), Carol Rama (April 17, 1918 - September 24, 2015), Niki de Saint Phalle (October 29, 1930 - May 21, 2002), Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 - March 6, 2019), Alina Szapocznikow (May 16, 1926 - March 2, 1973), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (January 19, 1889 - January 13, 1943), Dorothea Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012), Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 - January 19, 1981).

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has invited artist Benni Bosetto (Milan, 1987) to conceive the information apparatus of weTree, that is, to design the plaques in each tree that will tell the public the names and stories of the artists of the Woodman.

For more info: www.fsrr.org

Ph.Credit Giorgio Perottino

Turin sees the birth of the first urban forest dedicated to women artists

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