The Boboli Gardens Presents Antonio Manzi |
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| Monday, 05 September 2005 16:12 |
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FLORENCE, ITALY.-The Boboli Gardens present Antonio Manzi at Court - marble, bronze, graffiti and ceramics. For many contemporary artists, the challenge of tackling such a strongly historicized territorial context as the Boboli Gardens, so complex and modeled since its sixteenth-century origin, and of bringing it to dialogue with the present, has represented a strong attraction. An irresistible temptation which, in these past years, has involved artists like Igor Mitoraj, Kan Yasuda, Hossein Golba, Sandro Chia, Dario Bartolini and now, Antonio Manzi. The attraction this old garden exerts on sculptors derives from its ability to adapt and host various art forms through their numerous mutations over the centuries. In particular, the area of the garden, known by different names in different periods as “jardin potager”, “giardino degli ananassi”, “giardino della botanica”, underwent many transformations from the 1600s to the 1800s, assuming the forms of a romantic garden which, though isolated, was part of a larger garden. The ideal setting with a human scale for Antonio Manzi. In the two time-worn Tepidaria, still intriguing and evocative of past splendours, he has found an ideal habitat for his sculptural production of these past years.
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