Landscape n.2
Print on PVC scaffold sheet, 17 x 14 mt, Pastificio Cerere, Rome, 2021
Photo: Carlo Romano
Landscape No. 2 has been commissioned by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere for the restoration of the external façade of the former semolino factory.
The temporary site-specific installation is part of a new cycle of interventions characterized by the juxtaposition and repetition of natural and architectural elements.
The image consists of an about 200 sqm pattern; it resembles an architectural matrix made up of a series of geometric and figurative elements that refer to the history of the building itself.
The jars used to transport wheat and other goods become gigantic silos; these alternate with ears of grain that, while alluding to the landscape of the title, recalls the crown and the 'bouquet' that Ceres – goddess of harvests and rebirth – holds in traditional iconographic representations.
The landscape is thus reinterpreted on a natural, architectural, and cultural level.
