Biella, ten years of “Selvatica Arte e Natura in Festival”

At the Cultural Center of Biella Piazzoin the Palazzo Gromo Losa and Palazzo Ferrero locations, returns from 20 April to 21 July Selvatica – Art and Nature in Festivalthe biennial event entirely dedicated to nature and the environment that brings together artists, photographers, creatives and researchers in a set of proposals that combine exhibitions of painting, photography, sculpture, educational workshops and collateral events with a single aim: the protection and environmental protection.

This edition of Selvatica, which celebrates its tenth anniversary, promises to be full of surprises and opens to the East with an exceptional exhibition of the two Japanese master engravers Hokusai e HiroshigeThe rooms of Palazzo Gromo Losa will host over fifty woodcuts with an ornithological and botanical theme from the “Edoardo Chiossone” museum in Genoa, one of the largest Italian public collections of oriental art, from the Civic Museum of the Capuchins of Bagnacavallo (Ravenna) and from private collections. The exhibition, created ad hoc by Lorenza Salamon, curator of the artistic section of Selvatica, and Aurora Canepari, curator of the “Edoardo Chiossone” museum, develops as a tale of the four seasons and allows us to fully understand the “floating world” of two Masters who were able to interpret nature, animals, flowers and landscapes through a suggestion of new lines and colours. A hymn to the flow of nature through the sign of the two artists who in the nineteenth century showed the whole world a new style, with elegant strokes and clear colours, similar to those of watercolour.

Also among the scheduled exhibitions Movement Of Gianni Lucchesi, winner of the last edition of the Be Natural/Be Wild Competition promoted by the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation. Together with the contribution of the architect Julia CaraccioloLucchesi has built a path studied and conceived for the frescoed and imposing spaces of Palazzo Ferrero. An evocative exhibition, which through large paintings made with bitumen and mixed techniques, sculptures in iron and marble, allows us to meditate on the great themes that in recent years they are at the center of Western culture, such as environmental sustainability.

The section of Selvatica dedicated to photography, edited by Fabrizio Lavaopens with something new: for the first time he will be present at the Festival Skua Nature, leading group in accompanying nature photography, which through the management of numerous nature reserves, plans, develops and activates actions dedicated to conservation and studies on biodiversity, taking advantage of funds from activities related to nature tourism, in collaboration with public or private organizations of all the world. On display at Palazzo Gromo Losa over forty photographs by Iago Corazza and the Skua staff taken during the nature and anthropological photography workshops promoted in Romania, Norway and Spain. Photography will always be the protagonist at Palazzo Ferrero with Highlights, the most important nature competition in Germany, in which thousands of photographers participate every year; a journey around the world through a unique selection of magnificent images, from landscapes to animals in nature.

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There will also be space for schools with educational visits and interactive workshops organized by Clorofilla Soc. Coop., which has always taken care of Selvatica’s teaching. The activities are free for Biella schools. Like previous years, the graphic design of this edition was created by “Rik”, the famous Alessandria illustrator Riccardo Guasco, it represents the meeting between nature and the East and wants to pay homage to Japanese art.