What relationship does nature, human beings and ecological transformation unites today? How have these ties evolve in a time crossed by climatic instability and environmental crisis? These are the questions around which it rotates “Struggle for existence”, Marzia’s personal exhibition improves Presented to Arte Sella, in Trentino, and edited by Lorenzo Fusi.
The exhibition develops through three nuclei of works, created in close connection with the landscape of the Val di Sella. A visual and sensory story that, with dreamlike and sometimes disturbing tones, leads us to a universe where nature assumes the central role, Pushing us to question our place in the world and rethink the relationship between life, environment and coexistence.
The exhibition inaugurates a new and stimulating collaboration, destined to culminate in an ambitious project: the Reopening of an ancient mountain path that combines the two exhibition spaces. This path, wounded by Fury of the Storm Vaia in 2018is now being reborn and will soon return to be practicable, opening the doors to a physical and symbolic journey between art and nature.
During his inspections in the area, the artist noted thoughts, suggestions and details in his notebooks, real emotional archives that feed the heart of the project. Struggle for existence It is a poetic and visual investigation on the complex relationships between the environment, human intervention and ecological metamorphosis: a work that raises urgent questions about how we are (dis) building our world in an era marked by climatic crisis and deep imbalances.
The title draws inspiration from “The origin of the species” by Charles Darwin, which emphasizes strength and adaptability as fundamental conditions for survival. But today, in an era defined by deep interconnections, mutualism and co-evolution, this vision is no longer enough: survival proves to be a shared process, which involves every form of life, in a fragile and complex balance.
The exhibition opens at the Malga Costa with three paper dioramas belonging to the series Paradoxes of abundancevisual metaphors of the fragility of the ecosystem: delicate as the materials of which they are composed, vulnerable as the nature they evoke.
In the same space it takes shape an immersive installation on paper and papier -mâché, populated by beings inclatable as hybrid creatures and monumental mushrooms. To complete the work, a sound component conceived by improved together with Marco Ciorba, entitled Run fast and bite hardwhich intensifies the sensory experience and suggests a sense of urgency and metamorphosis.
The second chapter of the exhibition develops to Villa Strobelewhere the visitor meets a series of works, including some original pages of the historic weekly The Sunday of the Corriereon which the artist has removed every human and animal figure, letting only the landscapes emerge. In this visual silence, nature imposes itself as the only protagonist, witness of a world in which man has disappeared. A poetic and radical gesture that invites to reflect on the fate of humanity and the need to listen to the earth.
“Fight for existence” It also marks the beginning of a collaboration between Marzia improve and Arte Sella, which will culminate with the reopening of the mountain path that connects Malga Costa and Villa Strobele, currently in the recovery phase after the damage suffered during the Storm Vaia in 2018, and soon again accessible.
SOURCE: Sella art
