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Wandering Fields / Assab One

Wandering Fields Assab One, Milan, Italy. 2022 1+1+1 at Milan Design Week

 
 

Wandering Fields is an installation imagined for the halls of Assab One, a tribute to the plains we inhabit - the Pianura of the north of Italy, where we grew up, and the Low Lands of the Netherlands, where we now live. It is imagined as a sequence of fields arrayed into a vast drawing board. Here, loose materials - charcoal, sand, expanded clay, seeds, pozzolana gravel - can be drawn upon, sculpted, or mixed into new soils, through the actions of drawing and playing. This carpet of soils, minerals and seeds covers the halls of the former printing rooms, punctuated by material experiments, translating that same matter into materials and objects. Tools and games mediate the encounter between scales: it is a place where to be geographers, and literally draw on the surface of the earth, or where to play in and with the ground, between the scale of the soil that we touch, and the earth that we draw. Over time, through the comings and goings of guests and the sequences of drawing and deleting, materials will mix, producing new forms of soil. This new ground become the material heritage of the project, and has been reinstalled at Parco Trotter as the Garden of Intersections, a flowerbed for botanical experiments for the children of Casa del Sole.

 
 
 
 

TEAM Alessandra Covini, Giovanni Bellotti, Pedro Daniel Pantaleone, Konstantin Beck, Ebru Güner PARTNER Assab One CURATORS Elena Quarestani, Federica Sala PRODUCERS Elena Quarestani, Valeria Gemelli, Mafada Galessi SUPPORTED BY Creative Industries Fund NL PHOTOS Giovanni Hänninen