Spumeggiante, fredda / fiorita acqua dei torrenti, / un incanto mi dai / che più bello non conobbi mai; / il tuo rumore mi fa sordo, / nascono echi nel mio cuore. / Dove sono? Fra grandi massi / arrugginiti, alberi, selve / percorse da ombrosi sentieri? / Il sole mi fa un po’ sudare, / mi dora. Oh, questo rumore tranquillo, / questa solitudine. / E quel mulino che si vede e non si vede / fra i castagni, abbandonato. / Mi sento stanco, felice / come una nuvola o un albero bagnato.

(Torrente, Attilio Bertolucci)

Sheaf of Wind as an environmental art experience, event and poetic installation, created in site at “La Casa del Vecchio” (in the nearby Reggio Apennines). Starting from the personal story of the “Old sheaf builder”, owner of the house and surrounding land, they built an installation capable of remembering, signaling and welcoming. Not a sheaf of straw but of air, a changing form, capable of filtering light, sheltering from the sun, becoming a metaphor for a landscape that needs discovery, care, encounters and widespread socializing.

Sheaf of Wind as poetry of the fields, projection of the nature that is within us. The sheaf, an admirable agricultural construction, rethought in natural intertwined forms and capable of capturing the variation of light over the course of the day and the seasons. Sheaf-sculpture, intertwining of branches and air within which to enter, pause, breathe or sigh.

Class 5H – Architecture and Environment Section, experiences a creative exercise that the LAAI Association defines as poetic maintenance. The co-participation and the workshop with the artist as an experience that serves to deepen the observation of that strange space that is “between” things and invites with the gesture and the plot, to listen, look and re-discover space and places.

The workshop curated by Antonella De Nisco and Giorgio Teggi involves the intertwining of prunings with the involvement of a group of students. This creative activity, by the LAAI Association, maintains the goal of experimenting with new forms of collective use of space as “poetic maintenance of places”: natural woven / intertwined architectures that can take on an affective, symbolic, evocative dimension; inhabiting places as an act of listening, the ability to imagine objects, to reflect on the provisional nature and the temporary soul of things; being close to, living together by experiencing the place through significant-narrative points, getting in touch, organizing a place; use of waste materials from nature as an approach to an aesthetic idea that has been unaccustomed to grasping beauty in nature itself for too long; art as a meeting of sociability that can be re-proposed in other contexts or / and capable of creating a repercussion where an action of sharing and comparison has been made with respect to the personal experience of each participant.

Ogni opera d’arte è un pezzo di realtà / L’installazione è un testo a modo suo / Quindi può evocare e sottintendere / Lasciando microchimere / E preso qui in prestito e modificato un modo di dire / Il covone di vento / Sottintende / L’EGO NEL PAGLIAIO / Evoca / L’AGIO NEL PAGLIAIO / prendi parola per parola / la sua forma il suono il rimando / rimando parola / può comparire capriola scuola fienarola / il rimando di pagliaio / oltre che ghiacciaio acquaio formicaio / telaio / il rimando di pagliaio / può essere covone / che lascia il vuoto della mano e del suo dove e come / per riempirsi di un nuovo senso / e anche olocausto / sbucato dalla penna dalla testa dalla tastiera / del poeta / è una parola come un’altra / e all’olocausto della terra e della mente / la parola del poeta oppone sempre il rito dell’inconsistenza / perché poeta dice che ogni poesia scritta letta detta / col vento che entra ed esce a renderla mimetica / ogni poesia è una licenza / una licenza poetica.

(Volendo Incurrere [microchimerismo d’assalto], Francesco Gelati for the inauguration of Sheaf of Wind, La Casa del Vecchio – March 22nd 2022)

Project details

Design: Antonella de Nisco + Giorgio Teggi
Project Location: Casa del Vecchio APS, Vetto, Italy
Typology: Environmental art, installation
Built: 2022
Realization: Class 5H – Architecture and Environment Section, Liceo Chierici (RE)
Readings and visions: Prof. Silvia La Ferrara
Poetic forays: Francesco Gelati
Inaugural performance: RESPIRO, Annalisa Celentano with original music by Ciro Nacci

Antonella De Nisco

Antonella De Nisco

Antonella De Nisco was born in Bassano del Grappa and lives in Reggio Emilia. Artist and teacher of art history, she combines exhibition activities with collaborations in projects, installations, events, lectures and publications. Since 2010 she has collaborated with the Emilio Sereni Landscape Summer School (Gattatico) in the creation of thematic installations, in-depth workshops and didactic research. Since many years she collaborates with schools, municipalities, museums, theaters, intervening with exhibitions and sit-specific installations in the natural places of gardens, parks, both in urban / museum places and in marginal areas.