Florilegium _ photo cycle by Mustafa Sabbagh It is mise en abyme, narrative multiplication of a sequence and fertile ground for filmmakers such as Alain Resnais (Last year at Marienbad), Federico Fellini (8½), David Cronenberg (eXistenZ), David Lynch (Mulholland Drive), Christopher Nolan (Inception). And, for Ossigeno 12, as Mustafa Sabbagh, which multiplies soil to amplify its voice, as if it were a portal to a metaverse from which we are called to start again. Beneath our feet _ by George Monbiot «Beneath our feet is a miracle», writes the award-winning Guardian columnist, essayist and environmental activist George Monbiot, for the opening act of Ossigeno 12. But if we cannot know the reasons for miracles for they are supernatural, nothing is more natural than the soil, which we do not know only because of our guilty neglect. Between data and enchantment, Monbiot tells us that miracle of life and vitality that is soil. The soil that cultivates water. In conversation with Lorenzo Costa _ by Federico Tosi Like his Renaissance namesake, a great artist at the court of the Este family, Lorenzo Costa paints new morphologies by shaping the soil with water. An Italian pioneer of permaculture, his practice responds to three imperatives – to slow down, to distribute, to infiltrate – by listening to and respecting the land of Chianti and cultivating, like his fellow countryman Leonardo, the spark of experimentation. The immortality of the paradigm. Aztec chinampas, custodians of biodiversity _ by Stefano Santangelo There are some founding myths that, though distant from us in time and latitude, are still able to point the way. The model of the chinampas descends from Mexica-Aztecan mythology, generating soil from water and, through the work of associations such as Arca Tierra, connecting the biblical narrative of the Promised Land to the rhizomatic reality of the urban jungle. The body and the shelter: land rights and contemporary art. In conversation with Carsten Höller _ by Fabiola Triolo Yesterday an academic background in Agricultural Sciences, today one of the most acclaimed artists on the international scene. Ossigeno 12 met Carsten Höller, who took us on a path - the one of his unmistakable imagery - to investigate the shelter offered by his art both to the human right to the land, and to the sacrosanct rights of the land. - interludes in O12: Carsten Höller, Mushroom, 2004 - suite of 12 photogravures on Somerset paper, 31.4 x 31.4 cm each - ed. of 24 + 6 AP Land of Enough: soil and intergenerational justice. In conversation with Alberto Pirni _ by Leonardo Merlini What does the philosophical principle of intergenerational justice mean? We asked one of its noble fathers, the philosopher and professor Alberto Pirni, to find out how it fertilely grafts not only onto the abstract concept of morale, but also onto the concrete reality of the soil, in terms of sustainability and responsibility in the consumption of resources. Revolutionizing the alibi of Enough. Eutierra _ graphic novel by Francesco Corli Ossigeno 12's appointment with illustration, curated by Nicola Mari, presents the graphic novel Eutierra by Francesco Corli (Ferrara, 1994). Through the watercoloured and dreamlike strokes that characterise his work, Eutierra means the empathy one experiences in that deeply feeling of belonging to the earth, from the original myth of Gaea to the contemporary myth of the Humanoid. Tomorrow. The answers are written in the ground _ by Stefano Santangelo The 2015 documentary Tomorrow is the antidote to the apocalyptic, dead-end scenarios daily produced by the media as a conditioned reflex to the ringing of the environmental crisis bell. In a road movie that stops at virtuous examples discovered at every latitude of the planet, answers such as urban gardens, permaculture and composting are already here, germinating in the ground. That spoon that ensures life (and heals the soil) _ by Emanuele Isonio @ Re Soil Foundation There is more life in a tablespoon filled with soil than in the totality of human beings inhabiting the planet. Ossigeno 12 hosts Emanuele Isonio from the Re Soil Foundation, a non-profit scientific organisation, to give a prestigious voice to the vast vitality of the soil, violated in the rip-off from sustainable agriculture to intensive agro-industry, because what happens above heals the health of the world below but, above all, vice versa. Regenerating by idling _ by Carlo Zauli Regeneration as rebirth, where the added value lies in the absolute absence of fatigue required. Regenerative agriculture, which gives the soil total freedom to flourish again in accordance with its natural times and ways, thinks beyond the soil and embraces the entire ecosystem. After all, the foundation of its thinking lies right in the layers of the soil, called horizons; the sustainable horizon of our future lies, then, in fertile idleness. Womb _ photo cycle by Chiara Cunzolo Stretch marks as furrows in the earth. New life as a sprout. The mother as the root. The mother’s womb and the belly of the earth are brought together in powerfully evocative diptychs by photographer Chiara Cunzolo (Livorno, 1988) to discover a new meaning of motherhood and a new sense of belonging: children of the Mother, children of the Earth. 06 28 40 52 74 100 106 120 130 140 142 backdrops in O12: Flavius Criste, daltonia, 2023
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