The Fondation Cartier Brings the Amazon to the Triennale with “Siamo Foresta”
Entitled “Siamo Foresta”, this new exhibition by the Fondation Cartier has been specially conceived for the Triennale Milano and was presented on Friday 23. The launch gathered artists, philosophers, curators, journalists and anthropologists in the hall of the Milanese institution, where they had the chance to meet artists participating in the show, philosopher Emanuele Coccia and anthropologist Bruce Albert. At the very core of the exhibition lies an understanding of the concept of the forest as a meeting place for cultures. The project, which has transformed the exhibition space into a lush, luxuriant and immersive forest designed by Brazilian Luiz Zerbini, stages an unprecedented dialogue between thinkers and defenders of the forest; between indigenous artists – arriving from New Mexico to the Paraguayan Chaco via the Amazon – and non-indigenous artists from Brazil, China, Colombia and France. Over 70% of the works exhibited come from the Fondation Cartier collection. The exhibition is inspired by an aesthetic (and political) vision of the forest seen as a kind of egalitarian multiverse of living beings, thus offering a vibrant allegory of a possible world beyond our own at the centre of which we always place man alone. Attending the opening were Hervé Chanès, General Artistic Director of Fondation Cartier, Managing Director Chris Deacon, Stefano Boeri and Carla Morogallo, respectively President and Director General of the Triennale, curators Michela Alessandrini, Sandra Adam-Couralet and Chiara Agradi, Grazia Cuaroni, Director of Collections at the Fondation Cartier, and Bruce Albert, anthropologist and Artistic Director of the exhibition who has been living in South America for years. There were also many artists like Virgil Ortiz, Fabrice Hyber, Alex Cerveny, Santídio Pereira, Bruno Novelli and Luiz Zerbini.
Photos: Andrea Sgambelluri
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
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