Over a week ago, on September 15th, Edoardo Tresoldi unveiled SIMBIOSI, a new site-specific artwork for the renowned open air museum and sculpture park Arte Sella, which since 1986 has hosted projects by artists and architects such as Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, Giuliano Mauri, Eduardo Souto de Moura , among others.
The park of Villa Strobele, located in Italy’s Trentino Valley, was damaged last winter by a storm, being partially rebuilt and reopened to the public during the spring this year. SIMBIOSI fits into this context, creating, as always for Tresoldi’s works, a total fusion between architecture and landscape, accentuated by the transparencies generated by the wire mesh games.
In this work, the artist combines the canonical lightness of his wire structures, 5 meters high, with the use of local stone, accentuating the sense of “ruin” that characterises his works. The installation, placed on a perviously non-existent hill created by the storm, will with the time merge with its surroundings over time. It will be nature that restores the balance, reconstructing the landscape and generating the “symbiosis” evoked by the title.
Images by Il Conte Photography
About the artist
Born in 1987, Edoardo Tresoldi grew up in Milan where, at the age of 9, experimented different languages and techniques under the guidance of painter Mario Straforini. In 2009 he moved to Rome and started to work in various creative areas.
Cinema, music, scenography and sculpture gave him a heterogeneous vision of arts and became a platform for experimentation.
In his work, Tresoldi plays with the transparency of mesh and with industrial materials to transcend the time-space dimension and narrate a dialogue between Art and World, a visual summary which reveals itself in the fade-out of physical limitations. Mixing classical and modern language, he generates a third one, strongly contemporary.
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Author: Fran
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