Fading Loss – Tales from the forest.
By Laura Pugno
Laura Pugno (Trivero, 1975) multi-installation at Casa Zegna explores the wide array of relationships existing between man and nature. These works emerge through the observation of a suffering pine forest and the traces left on it by European spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) — small signs pointing to macroscopic, inexorable changes in the order of the natural world.
Nature is subjected to the actions of mankind, and our relationship with the landscape is one of mutual care. Like all living things, forests can become sick. A rise in temperature of only two degrees makes places like the Oasi Zegna — a mountain surrounding Trivero Valdilana — vulnerable and subject to attacks by insects, who were previously present without being a threat.
Pugno uses photography, video, sculpture and design to explore the primary themes of her artwork: the landscape and how we perceive it.
On this occasion, a story is told from the point of view of Oasi Zegna’s forest through material and media.
The exhibition is part of a project that Fondazione Zegna is dedicating to relations between nature, art and science, which was launched in 2020 along with the Zegna Forest reforestation plan, and the monitoring of Oasi Zegna’s state of health.
