Ortus Artis 2. International workshop on lanscape

Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

  • Certosa di San Lorenzo - Padula (Salerno)
  • 05 September 2004 - 12 September 2004

Devised by its curator Achille Bonito Oliva as a wide section within Le Opere e i Giorni/Works and Days, the exhibition Ortus Artis has been organized by the Superintendence of Salerno and Avellino together with studio.eu of Berlin, with the patronage of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Campania Region and the Province of Salerno.
The exhibition, set up in the gardens of the monks’ cells, is the occasion for an encounter between the themes of landscape and architecture, nature and art, and at the same time offers a comparison among the most up-to-date ideas of international and national contemporary landscaping.
The landscapers invited to take part in this second edition are Henri Bava, France; Bet Figueras, Spain; Guido Hager, Switzerland; Joao Ferreira Nunes, Portugal; Stefan Tisher, Germany.
The garden made in cell no.17 closes the exhibition; it has been conceived by the students of the Faculty of Architecture at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, chosen among the projects presented during the workshop of last year.