Pastificio Cerere Foundation is glad to present Esercizi e simulazioni, the personal exhibition by Francesco Simeti and the big urban intervention Whole Wheat, realized on the façade of the former Pastificio Cerere.
In occasion of the restyling that binds the entire Cerere Building, Simeti conceived the pattern Whole Wheat, 2010 a big print on PVC surface (600m2) spangled by plants, grasses, flowers, rocks, shrubs, cutted and pasted as a collage in order to create a kind of “globalized nature” in which even the ears of wheat rise in the stylized images of an artificial and genetically inexistent universe. The images employed, even if enchanting, allude to themes of a very different genre. Images of plants of different origins and species involve the Pastificio Cerere building as a symbolic forest, becoming a sort of nature’s revenge on anthropic action and architecture, as a warning towards an ethic commitment in society, for a sustainable environment and the natural resources’ safety.
Francesco Simeti’s urban intervention reinterprets the historical architecture of the building in San Lorenzo neighborhood and offers an unusual perspective of it, creating an original comparison between his work and the “street public”. The operation will be visible during the entire period of the building’s restyling, until May 2011.
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