ARCADIA AND APOCALYPSE

The exhibition aims to investigate how the landscape has been perceived and artistically represented from 1850 to the present day, highlighting the changes in aesthetics and representative codes, while also seeking to raise visitors' awareness of the issue of environmental degradation.

Through a long narrative that makes use of pictorial, sculptural, decorative arts, photography and new media – from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day – the exhibition revolves around creative thinking on the landscape, a pictorial genre inherited from the eighteenth century as a reflection of nature in art, in contrast to mythological and historical painting, which frees itself from its stereotypes without however disappearing, due to the landscape's ability to profoundly renew its meanings and representative codes, to reflect the radical transformations of Italian artistic culture and society as a whole.

Client: Fondazione Cultura Pontedera
Location: Pontedera (PI), Italy
Year: 2019
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Photo by: Anna Positano