https://www.artistsforplants.com/about daily 0.75 2021-10-16 https://www.artistsforplants.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-16 https://www.artistsforplants.com/alberoni daily 0.75 2022-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609540901-KT2L1UUZJPAUUH2PWHVS/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.54.07+PM.png Alberoni - Monica Martin “A thread for the environment", collective action based on an idea by Monica Martin. The intervention consists of a rope stretched between reeds and trees in the nature reserve, a thread that represents the physical support and symbolic thread to unite in a single choral expression poems, drawings, photographs, natural elements, musical compositions and any other element and artefact chosen and designed for this collective action. Monica hangs the contributions of each of the 130 participants citizens in the installation next to each other, like many little flags, thus evoking the well-known Tibetan flags in the specific sense of collective prayer in defence and blessing of the environment.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608255691-W7Q1ZFDD3X53V3MRHLI7/GiuliaMattera.png Alberoni - Giulia Mattera Plants+Sleep Plants+Sleep is an ongoing project investigating the intersection between plants and the human body during sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608348941-4VLD36TBNRSIY3A92XLS/Me+by+night.jpg Alberoni - Alberto Magrin Me by Night The roots of a tree (maritime pine) are born from a human heart. Human sensitivity should protect and safeguard the climate and nature in all its forms. The earth breathes through the process of chlorophyll photosynthesis and basically we breathe through it. Our life on Earth depends on the tree in all its forms, starting from the tree of knowledge, symbolically speaking, up to every tree that allows us to breathe. Since I was born in Rapallo, Liguria, I connected my existence to the marine climate of the Ligurian Riviera which is perfumed and flooded by the presence of pine forests, but the maritime pine in this work becomes only a symbol that involves and represents all kinds of trees that help people to live and survive even in cities polluted by humanity'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608722099-I359OPCUKR45KDDPG0H9/WhatsApp+Image+2021-04-22+at+3.42.33+PM.jpeg Alberoni - Emanuela Tornatore Terra Madre "Terra Madre", a great and generous mother who feeds her children in balance between the elements. The work was created with the use of recycled material. Debris collected along the dams of the Venice lagoon. My intervention is an intermediate step in a path that starts from the wood of the trees, which is transformed into a useful, discarded object and abandoned and then transformed by me again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608766240-SZCJ0EJIWLW1O6BSJDB0/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.54.31+PM.png Alberoni - Mario Alimede Let the plants breathe Experimental drypoint, burin and shellac. The title is inspired by George Floyd's last words and references to the cry for help that Nature addresses to us every day in this climate emergency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608811462-4FU2VSIUB1H641BEIFJB/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.54.47+PM.png Alberoni - Carlo De Gaetano, Andy Dockett and Sabine Niederer All Gone: Co-authoring climate imaginaries with AI All Gone is a series of experiments with AI that build on existing collections of climate fiction to create much-needed new climate imaginaries. As the climate crisis is also a “crisis of imagination” (Ghosh, 2016), this project turns to the art genre that is best at forecasting and imagining alternative futures: science fiction. Using collections of ‘cli-fi’ novels, in which science fiction meets natural disaster or heavy weather, algorithms are trained until they are able to render new climate imaginaries in textual and visual form. The edited texts and curated images are further developed into audio stories and a tarot deck as tools for reflection on present and future living with a changing climate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608847995-G533J6E9WK3VM7P2KVF4/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.54.57+PM.png Alberoni - Andrea del Garbo Pelléas This work, which recalls the ancestral symbol created by Maurice Maeterlink, is intended to represent an ideal of a human being that is both new and ancient, past and future, nature and culture at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608886705-OPRB4RGI6C4P5CCP7YK5/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.55.07+PM.png Alberoni - Chiara Ferrin Private gardens Closed inside fences that protect from prying eyes, and considered pure adornment, the man's axe breaks down on them; men are more and more accustomed to considering the trees of their gardens as a private property, on which they are allowed to wield all of their power. Nature, the spontaneous and rebellious one, is not expected to express itself freely outside the wire mesh, so it must be tamed, repressed, mutilated. What is vital about a tree, does not seem to matter. It is elsewhere, where man no longer intervenes, that nature makes its revolution and reproduces itself. Challenging us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634608915045-G2QKMRC5K6OUB5PEYB2D/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.55.15+PM.png Alberoni - Ana Sofía Camarga Mitos Del Cafe During an art residency with Creativa Coffee District, a specialty coffee processing company, I realized that despite the normalization of coffee, centuries of colonial mass production schemes had obscured its process. The coffee industry is sustained by myths. From my research, I observed that labor exploitation, and mass migration, were some of the social byproducts of coffee production, particularly in the conventional coffee production. I crafted paper from coffee berry husks and coffee grounds, byproducts from the coffee process, engraved the myths into the paper and hung them in my neighboring rainforest. Within days, after several rainstorms, the paper fell to the ground and was consumed by the soil becoming, then, a part of the forest. I submitted these works to The Art Network Call in Alberoni, Venice, Italy, because I identified with the project's intersectional approach to environmental conservation. I also believe that these works, in their ephemeral nature, resemble the fragility of the ecosystem in Alberoni making a very important parallelism about these endangered habitats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609091597-8CKVOPWGVETHFNAN7FMW/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.55.36+PM.png Alberoni - Benna Gaean Maris Almost Peer “Common wild oat is a plant that you can confront with.” My confrontation with nature, face to face with a plant of wild oat (Avena fatua L., 1753) a poaceae that is considered infesting, but yet its small seeds contain nourishment. Which role a human being has in nature, facing an allegedly infesting plant? It offers nourishment to animals: can you say the same for a human? Or rather he is the true infestation, with his counter-ecological practices that put under threat thousands species of the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609113059-XMWTXMRG73ZMQAQRTWGJ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.55.44+PM.png Alberoni - Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir Voicing Gaia Throughout the histories of human cultures, connecting with nature’s wisdom allowed us to expand our awareness of self and others. In VOICING GAIA we engage and iterate a participatory vision of democracy were all voices (human and non) are heard and considered. We create video performances that are leading towards a citizen-led policymaking dialogue were we embody the intelligence of the heart and stage empathy in action to awaken and inform our human beingness and human becomingness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609144253-CRFVW1WBWEF0WUXKMGS3/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.55.58+PM.png Alberoni - Jennifer Weigel Regret ‘Media: Found broken chair, shredded paper, faux apples Statement: We cannot cut down a tree to make a chair and then turn that chair back into a tree. We cannot make paper into leaves. What’s done is done. We must learn to make our peace with nature and preserve what we can before it is too late. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609165977-TH3C62WU14RKPB047UHO/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.56.09+PM.png Alberoni - Cristina Pacquola Another Green World The project is inspired by the book "La nazione delle Piante" by Stefano Mancuso, a beloved reading and a source of reflection/expression. "The Plant Nation" proposes eight rules from which to rethink our place on this planet, making different choices with a different impact, in respect and harmony with the environment that surrounds us. Starting from the "Charter of the Rights of Plants" described in the essay, the 8 articles will be explained through the painting and colors of the artist Caterina Margherita and narrated musically by Cristina Pacquola, founder of the label Electronicgirls, Venice. The live will be recorded and presented in the area of Alberoni (Venice), a place known and dear to the two resident Venetian artists. The colors become one with the music to pay homage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609418016-7HJVRS758EK79GLBIUEC/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.56.17+PM.png Alberoni - Cristina Cherchi My nature is fire and water The Alberoni vegetation, set in both architectural and natural context. The nature represented is not a paradise, nor is it a faithful reproduction of the surrounding reality. The subjects-objects are not placed in their natural habitat, but the world is upside down. The color is totally distorted and turned towards something surreal. Will nature become artificial and unnatural and be produced by current technology as a substitute for the real thing? Mixing nature and anti-nature to seek a balance between them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609458154-YWXKN1FM24PV5XI4BHE4/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.56.25+PM.png Alberoni - Michele Liuzzi Stage rehearsal for photosynthetic fragments in random order The project was born from the collection of objects found in the site of Alberoni (the beach, the coast, the cliff) and in its vicinity. The idea was to create a link between the land and the sea. A virtuous link: land/sea/sky. I imagined a figure in the act of offering itself to the waves and the winds by detaching itself from the ground and hovering in the air. Thus a makeshift raft took shape, ready to face the sea and the wind, challenging fate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634609504830-3DNIDKVYFH9LFRE9HLU6/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.56.45+PM.png Alberoni - Teresa Venchierutti. Epica delle piante tra mare e Terra. You could call it an Iconography, a Narrative of the heroic deeds of the plants and flowers that inhabit the Alberoni Dunes. Their strength continues to be a magical mystery, filling the world with shapes and colours. Special mentions go to Eryngium maritimum and Fumana Procumbens which have taken shape, "stylised", in my lampshade. https://www.artistsforplants.com/open-call-2024 daily 1.0 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/700ce4b8-251e-48e9-8f8f-d8b578dfaf8d/Schermata+2025-10-29+alle+15.50.13.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/e60c8880-7408-49b4-a6b9-21cd33529340/Immagine+06-07-25+alle+11.24.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/189944f0-b41f-4b7e-8898-2f5064bd5908/Poster+Call+2025.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/958fb4a2-5ee5-47d1-b74b-0f9ef591799c/Schermata+2025-01-21+alle+16.33.08.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/d20171b2-c90a-4fe9-ad48-481568dd62ae/Schermata+2025-01-20+alle+13.10.47.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/0169b391-50ac-4f4e-b1f7-2a91d1d6b5cc/IMG_C581006D2303-1.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/317cd44d-bc3a-4241-9018-90e413f47190/IMG_C581006D2303-1.jpeg https://www.artistsforplants.com/home daily 0.75 2023-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/f9f58235-4fb5-45c7-b4a8-504f67d0e7a9/Immagine+2022-06-20+202748.jpg Archive - Make it stand out Credits: Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Pål Hermansen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/75c93fbd-6aa5-4a32-9aae-d8108f2fd539/Immagine+2022-06-20+202315.jpg Archive - Make it stand out Credits: Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Pål Hermansen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/0546e6fe-7f7f-4f8c-9953-2266b53a7978/Schermata+2023-08-04+alle+16.50.14.png Archive - Make it stand out Photo by Fabio Balocco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/b300fd58-ac4b-4454-9e29-b29edd0aadb1/composizione_artists_for_plants.jpeg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/9ff7a683-2c72-4e81-8111-e2731d144a4b/IMG_3813_medium.jpeg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/ec29f5ae-58ff-45d7-a51d-5635e3e4d5ff/242181990_10217374949280649_6270875190257041916_n.jpeg Archive - A Thread For The Environment. Installation by Monica Martin. Conceived and realized by the artist to sensitize the community on the issue of environmental protection, the installation comprises 130 artworks suspended from a single wire, 70 meters in length. The works were created by citizens of all ages (from 4 to over 80 years), from Italy and abroad. Presented for the first time at the Lido, Venice on September 11, 2021 in the protected area of the Alberoni dunes, for The Art Network 2021 (an initiative launched by Artists For Plants). The installation was subsequently rearranged and presented in Venice on the island of Giudecca on October 2, 2021, along the colonnade of the magnificent Cloister of the former Convent of SS. Cosma and Damiano. With the project “A Thread for the Environment" the Venetian artist Monica Martin intends to stimulate the sensitivity of all people on the issue of environmental protection and biodiversity by linking them into a coordinated choral intervention that becomes an expression of the same. Initially created as a "site specific work" in the dunes of Alberoni at the Lido, Venice, it is now being proposed in other contexts for other events which focus on environmental issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/71da39cd-1e8a-4650-82f6-5ce45ceb50d8/242571676_10217386352365719_1465047140767897083_n.jpeg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/a185bfc4-8931-47a0-bb84-b7c1c1d93083/242292673_10217374949720660_8127347503307376327_n.jpeg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/384ceb1a-9d45-4b79-9db0-aac1eccc8bf3/IMG_20210911_160720_medium.jpeg Archive The response of the community to the artist's invitation has exceeded all expectations. It was the transversal response, as Monica had hoped for. People of all ages joined in: from four years old to over 80. Friends, family members, groups of artists, guests of RSAs and members of foundations, parents with children, grandparents and their grandchildren participated in collective works; poets, painters and musicians also created ad hoc works. Contributions came from all over Italy and even abroad. Each participant was invited by the artist to express their thoughts and produce a contribution related to the theme of environmental protection in the manner most akin to themselves, so very different contributions were collected, each with its own beauty, each with its special story and message. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/cc8967b1-63a6-446e-b56d-1ea65d4ae4f6/IMG_20210911_154411_ritaglio_medium.jpeg Archive Many works came to the artist by mail and it was always with renewed emotion that she opened the envelopes that arrived: from them came scents, colors, and materials evoking visions and suggestive meaning. Many participants arrived in person, even from distant places, specifically to deliver their prayers directly into Monica's hands. Two Venetian bookshops were then chosen by Monica as collection points, as they are places that diffuse culture and knowledge, important ingredients in the creation of awareness in every individual. Thanks to this initiative Monica had the opportunity to have contact with many people she already knew and was able to weave new relationships via email, telephone, through social channels and of course in person. With their enthusiasm and heartfelt participation in the project, the participants in “A Thread for the Environment" conveyed to her their profound pleasure in working towards a common goal on an issue so heartfelt and more important than ever for the world. This very strong response from the community was truly moving and is the response that for Monica gives meaning and importance of the initiative itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/b6db1821-671a-41c1-8a5d-b8cb4b112114/IMG_4874.PNG Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/a54a51c0-1d66-4739-9f5f-d897c223ed83/IMG_4876.PNG Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634409966808-XGG15SHKBD5SDUERCC86/Screen+Shot+2021-10-16+at+1.45.13+PM.png Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634403574085-HI8ZAWBTNGXFU4QRGZE9/Efflam_Choco%CC%81_mangroves.jpeg Archive - Efflam Mercier Mangrove, Heart of Chocó Render of a Digital 3d sculpture. Tools: Nomadsculpt, Blender, Houdini. Digital 4K. At the confluence of rivers and oceans, mangroves are at risk: "Interrupt the flows of sediments, you interrupt the services these ecosystems provide." Mangrove trees are a source of natural abundance on many levels. Protecting these ecosystems from extraction and concrete dams is key to keeping everyone safe, fed and warm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634410914627-MFRW0W5TA6B0ECU6U4K4/Sabinaria.png Archive - Marisa Mary Myrah Sabinaria Magnifica Oil on Canvas. 36” X 48” or 91cm X 122cm. My inspiration for this painting was the discovery of the new palm in the Darién Gap region of Chocó, Colombia. I wanted to capture and highlight the palm as it was discovered by Saúl Hoyos and Junior Echavarría in their video about the expedition that lead to its discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634410457577-8X70ZRNTIWFYK29786MU/Screen+Shot+2021-10-16+at+12.16.42+PM.png Archive - Quézia & LesCogumelos Cultivar la Cura 4000x4000 MP4 Loop. Cultivar la Cura was created as a homage to all women that use the power of plants as their medicine. Inspired by the flora of Chocó in Colombia and the feminine presence that is dedicated to growing the cure. Nature gives us medicine and we need to honor and protect all the people that keep and share this rich knowledge. Buy ‘Cultivar la Cura’ as a Clean NFT on Hicetnunc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634405904817-73KMERLVARHIINPFTTYS/Screen+Shot+2021-10-16+at+12.37.46+PM.png Archive - Alejandra Montoya Passiflora Analog collage on paper. 25 x 36 cm. Passiflora was inspired by the beauty of passiflora flowers that grow in the Chocó region. The artwork seeks to express the subtle and deep connection that exists between the local community and the natural environment, as well as their mutual need to coexist in balance to face the challenges that progress imposes on them. Gustavia Superba Analog collage on paper, 24 x 34 cm. Gustavia Superba was inspired by the homonymous flower, endemic to the Colombian Chocó. In the artwork the woman and naturemerge, representing the close relationship and co-dependency that the community has with the natural environment in which it lives. The fundamental purpose of this work is to give visibility to the fragility and beauty of the second most biodiverse area in the world; Chocó. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/616b014d0343cf58c06c216a/1634406671054-MW9TBDIBBSYQK5SYZ2HD/Screen+Shot+2021-10-12+at+5.21.49+PM.png Archive - Sara Antunes The Golden Thread - Hildo Dorado Ink on paper / 28.4 x 21 cm. My art work deals with sacred power of nature, that shows us that everything is connected and interdependent. It uses as inspiration the golden thread of Aluna. Seeing the documentary, I was inspired by the golden thread (hilo dorado), which try to show all people how things in nature cannot be seen anymore separately, but as a whole, for the sake of all.