Third Paradise at Villa Manin

Name: Third Paradise at Villa Manin
Start: 2024-06-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Parco di Villa Manin di Passariano

Exhibition

1 und 2 JuniPassed

Registrierung

bookshop@villamanin.it

©villa Manin

Villa Manin hosts the exhibition T3rza Terra-Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte at Villa Manin. An integral part of the exhibition is the Third Paradise, a symbol conceived by Pistoletto to express the balanced interweaving between artifice and nature, which was created in the park of Villa Manin in botanical form, on a large scale (50 meters)It is also an opportunity to address the issues on the agenda today of agricultural production and food sustainability.

Über den Standort

Parco di Villa Manin di Passariano

Piazzale Manin 10, Passariano

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Owned by the Manin nobles since the mid-sixteenth century, the large estates of Passariano became the backdrop of the magnificence of one of the richest families in Europe, determined to rival the most prestigious European courts. After the first sketches of Francesco IV Manin (1670), the park became in the Baroque era "Hotel of Peace and Pleasure" (from a poem by Daniele Florio, 1766) on drawings by a "French Gardener" student of Le Nôtre, the designer of the park of the Palace of Versailles, enriched by the "master of the house" of the Manin, Giovanni Ziborghi: labyrinths, water games, animal shutters, orange trees, underground glaciers, hanging gardens, elegant lodges, models of fortresses make it a wonder destined to amaze the traveller, so much so that Goldoni will define it as a "stay worthy of a king". The Venetian Giannantonio Selva and the Friulian Pietro Quaglia transformed it first (1809) into Enlightenment geometries and then (1863) into a romantic "boot" in the shape of It