[syndicate] IL LUOGO DELLA NATURA Services and Storage at Paradise Plantation

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Am 17.08.2005 um 06:09 schrieb tamara lai:

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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sympa Owner [mailto:sympa at kilby.copyleft.no] On Behalf
>>> Of tamara lai
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:20 PM
>>> To: listes
>>> Subject: [syndicate] IL LUOGO DELLA NATURA Services and
>>> Storage at Paradise Plantation
>>>
>>> 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 Beuys’ 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. Man’s
>>> relationship with nature has always been a constant theme in
>>> Beuys’ 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 d’ 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: “Dharma of
>>> E.N.E.L.” created by the artist Marco Bagnoli using the five
>>> power company
>>> pylons that cross the plantation, and “Mònadi” 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 l’Environnement, 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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