Simbiosi
Simbiosi is the site-specific installation realized by Edoardo Tresoldi for Arte Sella sculpture park, the renowned openair museum in Italy’s Trentino Valley. The artwork composes a space of rest and contemplation, a ruin suspended between architecture, nature and temporal dimension.
The installation is entirely open towards the sky and reaches a height of 5 meters. Simbiosi is a turning point in the Italian artist’s evolution: for the first time, Tresoldi hybridizes the transparency of the Absent Matter, expressed through the wire mesh, with the materiality of local stones. The artwork seems to challenge the force of gravity, like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world. A living organism, permeable yet intimate: an emotional communication channel with nature. Simbiosi lives and breathes in deep connection with Arte Sella park. Nature, growing slowly, will define a new, additional architecture: same as the other artworks, the installation will become part of the Arte Sella fabric and will ultimately blend with the park.
“When I first visited Arte Sella I ran into some ruins along the road. The character of the ruin within landscape is an element I've always found fascinating, it embodies the idea of dying architecture in the collective imagination”, Tresoldi has declared. Unlike the “conventional” ruin, defined by a process of organic deterioration, here a reconstrution takes place, following unusual rules of matter, where the artist's design inserts itself in the ruin’s structure. The Absent Matter here embodies the mental shape that tries to define and retain the weight of matter by giving it a rational form. Simbiosi is an interpretation of the surrounding landscape through the intentional connections between architectural and natural elements, whose continuous exchange defines the aesthetics, meanings and logics of sculpture. The architectural archetypes, through which Tresoldi narrates the landscape’s elements, become here the channel through which they can be interpreted.
Simbiosi is realized in modular elements in zinc coated wire mesh, Edoardo Tresoldi’s signature medium, filled with local stones.