Contemporary art parks - Finestre sull'Arte

A park of works made with flowers. The contemporary garden of the Montellori Farm.

"Some gardens are described as refuges, when in fact they are traps." The tender early spring air that channels along the avenue of pine trees at Montellori Farm does everything it can to belie the aphorism of Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Scottish poet w...
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Mauro Staccioli's sculptures in Volterra: experiences that become art in the landscape

Driving through the countryside surrounding Volterra, the gaze is caught by large sculptures with geometric shapes totally immersed in the landscape: circles, ovals, triangles and lines stand out solitary among the green or barren lands, dependin...
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Like Magritte, but with a view of Florence: Jean-Michel Folon at the Rose Garden

A Magrittian-inspired park in the Tuscan capital, just below Piazzale Michelangelo, the largest panoramic terrace from which the whole of Florence is overlooked. The Rose Garden (that's the name of the Florentine park) has the look of a real gar...
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Chianti Sculpture Park, the forest where art becomes part of the landscape

A forest where wild boars once ran, on the slope of a hill, not far from Siena (the city is about twenty minutes away by car), but already in full nature: the nearest village, Pievasciata, is a handful of houses a few hairpin bends away. Even, if...
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The Magic of Quarrata: the Medici villa where ancient and contemporary meet in a dialogue between man and landscape

The recent history of Villa La Magia, the grand Medici villa in Quarrata, to be read strictly with the accent on the first "a," began in 2000: "màgia," meaning "great," from the Latin maius. That year, the ancient mansion became the property o...
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The Quinto Martini Park-Museum in Seano: the poetry of simplicity

When one admires a sculpture by Quinto Martini, at times, at a first careless glance, one might be overwhelmed by the temptation to consider his art as a sort of coda of nineteenth-century verism, an art strongly anchored to the naturalistic datu...
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Pinocchio Park in Collodi. A path between sculptures and nature in the fairy tale of the most famous puppet

"Once upon a time... - A king! - my little readers will immediately say. No, kids, you got it wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood." Everyone will know that this is the incipit of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Lorenzini (Flore...
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