EMANUELA ASCARI
A trip to Italy to meet organic farmers, taking to their lands a phrase “What is alive needs what is alive” to identify small realities active in maintaining landscapes, biodiversity, the vitality of the land and food sovereignty, such as was Agricolarte – Art of Need – an agricultural cooperative, and aesthetic operation, conceived by artist Luigi Pezzato, together with residents of Maranola and shepherds of the Aurunci Mountains, between 1980 and 1992.
Maranola thus became a further stage in the artist’s journey as he found common principles between his research and that of Pezzato, for whom organic production could be seen as a real concrete work of art. In fact, his point of view was to consider agricultural work functional to the maintenance of the landscape and beauty of the territories as well as cultural traditions.
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