The garden is open

The exhibition “Il giardino è aperto/The garden is open” hosted in Lugano in the Colonnade of the Salita dei Frati Library presents the artist’s book made by Alessandra Angelini with texts by Paolo Cottini, essayist and garden historian. The exhibition offers the visitor the possibility of admiring in its integrity this valued book – born from the desire to illustrate the wonderful garden of Vico Morcote in the Swiss canton of Ticino, designed by Sir Peter Smithers – and to observe the process of its making through sketches, underdrawings made with Indian ink, graphic works, photographs, computer graphics, matrices and proof sheets. On display there is also the bilingual Italian/English pamphlet, published by Cento Amici del Libro, with a commentary by Alessandra Angelini, critical texts by Francesca Porreca, Laura Tirelli, Patrizia Caccia, Cecilia Angeletti and a text by Paolo Cottini, translated into English by Amelia Smithers, the daughter of the founder of the garden of Vico Morcote.