A new permanent intervention has been created for the Villa Carlotta Botanical Museum and Garden in Tremezzina, on Lake Como: it is To the women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams! / To all those women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams!, conceived and realized by artist Maria Dompè with the collaboration of Villa Carlotta’s gardeners.
An art project curated by Elena Di Raddo and coordinated by Maria Angela Previtera, promoted by the Villa Carlotta Authority, which intends to enhance a new portion of the park, connecting the historic garden and the forest, redeveloped after the major works carried out thanks to the project A step in the park, a step towards the future. Villa Carlotta a resource for the territory PNRR - Investment 2.3 Programs to Enhance the Identity of Historic Places, Parks and Gardens (MIC3) funded by the European Union - NextGenarationEU.
A flowery, intimate and intimate plastic space that for Maria Dompè is meant to be “an ’offering to the forest, to nature, by women for women,’” explains curator Elena Di Raddo. “The art of the garden interweaves aesthetics, nature and reflections on human balance and its relationship with the environment. But it is also a metaphor for the human mind and soul, reflecting the search for harmony, order and beauty. On such theoretical aspects Maria Dompè’s talk is based.”
It is a permanent green intervention “designed in line with the path that from the ’gateway to the forest’ climbs to the heights above the garden, following the ancient paths traced by the owners of the Villa who, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, shaped the park and planted secular trees,” says Maria Angela Previtera.
The environmental works To the women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams! / To all those women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams! aim to enhance the park’s tangible and intangible heritage, interweaving art, history and nature. They are inspired by all women forced to give up their dreams and dedicated to the young princess Charlotte of Prussia, owner of the villa, who died prematurely at the age of only twenty-three. “Two environmental interventions,” the artist explains, “in dialogue with the place and its history. Two real moments of reflection on what art can offer to the reading of the world and human destiny.”
The permanent intervention is accompanied by a temporary work visible in the museum’s plaster room that was created by the artist in collaboration with Livia Crispolti and her students from the Textile Culture course (Department of Artistic Design for Business) at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, who worked on the theme of the condition of women.
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