Making artwork from trees: the Royal Palace of Caserta launches green contest

The Royal Palace of Caserta launches the first edition of the Contemporary Creation & Green Museum - Wooden Renaissance, a site-specific growth competition. Participating artists will have to create works of contemporary art using exclusively wood from the Green Museum: plant specimens to be felled and woody materials from the Royal Park will thus be recovered and enhanced, transforming them into works of art. Three art projects will be selected to be created within the Green Museum.

The competition is open to artists residing in Italy or abroad. The works can be created using the trees and woody materials already on the ground or specimens of Quercus ilex that are old, for which the planned felling will be replaced with the maintenance of the stem, limited to a height of about four meters. Through the reuse of plant material from the Royal Park, which is also derived from ordinary maintenance activities, participants are invited to propose works in close communication with the architectural and landscape structure of the Vanvitellian Complex. In line with the sustainability goals of Agenda 2030, participants will propose art projects to stimulate in the public of the Royal Palace of Caserta individual and collective sensitivity, the temporal dimension of place and awareness of the relationship between man and the environment.

For full details of the call for entries and information, visit http://www.reggiadicaserta.beniculturali.it, or the MiBACT website under “Transparent Administration - Calls for Tenders and Contracts.” The deadline for submitting applications is 12 noon on December 4, 2020.

The Vanvitellian Complex, which owns the Terrae Motus contemporary collection, intends to initiate experimental paths aimed at supporting creative production, also in view of a broader activity of enhancing contemporary art in the spaces that the Reggia is recovering.

Making artwork from trees: the Royal Palace of Caserta launches green contest

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