IL LUOGO DELLA NATURA Services and Storage at Paradise Plantation

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PRESS RELEASE

IL LUOGO DELLA NATURA

Services and Storage at Paradise Plantation

 
Inauguration Sunday September 25, 2005 - Bolognano (PE)
 

Il Luogo della Natura (The Place of Nature) is a subterranean construction
of about 800 sq.mt. on two levels, entirely built of reinforced concrete.
designed and constructed by  Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, an important
underground facility at Joseph Beuys¹ Paradise Plantation in Bolognano, a
small Italian town in the Abruzzo region.

 

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was one of the most emblematic and significant
personalities in the contemporary art vanguard after World War II; he
participated in the first events organized by the Fluxus group and then
focused all his work in the area of performances and the defense of the
environment, with a strong political, social, humanitarian and economic
commitment. In the last years of his life he visited Italy many times,
particularly Abruzzo, where he found a fertile terrain for his ideas among
the people, and the ideal location for the expression of his beliefs as a
man and as an artist.

 

The last great masterpiece of Beuys is his Defense of Nature, a colossal
operation developed in Italy in a context in which unbridled nature plays a
primary role, reflecting the expansion of human thought and energy. Man¹s
relationship with nature has always been a constant theme in Beuys¹ work:
the defense of nature viewed as environmental concern and interpreted above
all in the anthropological sense, Defense of Man, of Human Values, of
Creativity.

 

 

 
Centro d¹ Intercomunicazione Culturale
Direttore Baronessa Lucrezia De Domizio Durini

 Palazzo Durini 65020  Bolognano (PE) - Tel/fax 0039.085.888.01.54
illuogodellanatura at tiscali.it
<mailto:0039.085.888.01.54illuogodellanatura at tiscali.it>
www.asa-art.com/luogodellanatura/1.html

 

The philosophy of the German master is active and pedagogical, expressing
with different languages the two primary concepts: the creative energy that
every human being possesses, and solidarity, the free collaboration among
men of different origins, social strata, cultures, economic and religious
backgrounds, his famous Living Sculpture.

 

Lucrezia De Domizio Durini collaborated actively and constantly with Joseph
Beuys in the last 15 years of his life and, since his death (23.1.1986), has
devoted all her energy to spreading the philosophy of Beuys in the world,
using every possible medium.

 

Il Luogo della Natura (The Place of Nature) is devoted to Cultural
intercommunication among various disciplines, open to many possible
languages, and is the active and theoretical heritage of Beuys.

 

It is an unusual project in the world of art, in which the two primary
concepts of man, Science and Economics, are the foundations of a program of
thought and work. A place of study, research and training, where it is
possible to unify, through the system of instruction, the visual and
theoretical components.

A vast library, a photographic archive, videos, films and rare art documents
provide the tools for consultation and information, facilitating the
organization of conferences, seminars, debates on various social topics with
a multimedia approach.

 

It is a pedagogical and philological project of a highly professional kind
that, through the presence of international intellectuals in various
disciplines, will create job opportunities for young people who wish to
proceed in this direction.

The management consists of a Chairman, a Director, a Co-director and 5
commissioners, all people involved with international culture, and it is
associated with several foreign cultural organizations.

 

Il Luogo della Natura (The Place of Nature) is an integral part of the
Harpsichord Society, created by Joseph Beuys in 1980, a place open to
autonomous cultural projects proposed by public institutions, national and
international cultural and intellectuals in various fields.

 

Il Luogo della Natura (The Place of Nature) is the name of the physical
building. 

Its subtitle, Services and Storage at Paradise Plantation, is both
conceptual and practical, indicating the reciprocal willingness among
peoples to give and take in a broad cultural collaboration.

 

Paradise Plantation  houses two works of contemporary art: ³Dharma of
E.N.E.L.² created by the artist Marco Bagnoli using the five power company
pylons that cross the plantation, and ³Mònadi² the driveway to the
underground room, created by Vitantonio Russo.

 

Il Luogo della Natura. (The Place of Nature) Services and Storage at
Paradise Plantation is dedicated to HARALD SZEEMANN and his family: his wife
Ingeborg Lüscher and their daughter Una.

In memory of Buby Durini and Joseph Beuys.

 

The entire construction and design project is documented in detail in a book
with the same name as the building, available in two versions, in English
and Italian, published by Silvana Editoriale Milan, and a film by Stefano
Odoardi as well as a musical CD composed by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
are also available.

 

Associated Cultural organizations: ASA Art and Technology, London ­ Tribunal
Européen de l¹Environnement, London - Experimental Intermedia Foundation,
New York.

 

PRESS DAY 13th september 2005  Ore 11.00
Palazzo della Triennale -V.le Alemagna 6 - Milano
 

 

P.S. For further information and photographs contact the SEM press office.

 

 

 

PRESS OFFICE: STUDIO EVENTI MAGISTER- Via San Marco 33 Milano

Tel. 02.36571601  Fax 02.36571605  - email: studiomagister at tiscali.it