19 Luglio 2019
A Journey in the Gardens of Europe. From Le Nôtre to Henry James
From Friday 5 July to Sunday 20 October the Rooms of the Arts of the Reggia di Venaria hosts the exhibition Journey in the Gardens of Europe. From Le Nôtre to Henry James. The extraordinary “adventure” across European gardens through the continuum of stories told by famous eighteenth- and nineteenth- century travelers who visited the largest and most beautiful parks on the continent.
Architects, landscape designers, princes, writers, intellectuals and scholars travelled across Europe for centuries, visiting gardens, admiring landscapes and drawing inspiration from them.
Notebooks, letters and journals, whether published or stowed away in archives allow us to reconstruct itineraries, and journey with our senses to places of beauty, witnessing the continent's histories and cultures.
The exhibition unfolds across adventurous storylines, structured into twelve sections: paintings, drawings, wooden models and other objects showcase famous sixteenth- to early twentieth-century gardens: from the Italian geometrical settings to the prospective escapes of their French counterparts and the “picturesque” elements of English landscape architectures.
In the context of the Reggia di Venaria and its Gardens, this journey - through the works of dozens of artists - travels across the Italy of the “Grand Tour” and the Europe of kingdoms and empires, whose gardens of villas and palace function at once as loci of power and “fashionable” phenomenon, summoning distant and dreamed worlds.
The exhibition is organized by Vincenzo Cazzato, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Pejrone and Maurizio Reggi and organized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin-DAD and the APGI-Association of Parks and Gardens of Italy, with the patronage of ARRE, Association des Résidences Royales Européennes.
Architects, landscape designers, princes, writers, intellectuals and scholars travelled across Europe for centuries, visiting gardens, admiring landscapes and drawing inspiration from them.
Notebooks, letters and journals, whether published or stowed away in archives allow us to reconstruct itineraries, and journey with our senses to places of beauty, witnessing the continent's histories and cultures.
The exhibition unfolds across adventurous storylines, structured into twelve sections: paintings, drawings, wooden models and other objects showcase famous sixteenth- to early twentieth-century gardens: from the Italian geometrical settings to the prospective escapes of their French counterparts and the “picturesque” elements of English landscape architectures.
In the context of the Reggia di Venaria and its Gardens, this journey - through the works of dozens of artists - travels across the Italy of the “Grand Tour” and the Europe of kingdoms and empires, whose gardens of villas and palace function at once as loci of power and “fashionable” phenomenon, summoning distant and dreamed worlds.
The exhibition is organized by Vincenzo Cazzato, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Pejrone and Maurizio Reggi and organized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin-DAD and the APGI-Association of Parks and Gardens of Italy, with the patronage of ARRE, Association des Résidences Royales Européennes.
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It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.- Martha Stewart - |
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