Solve et coagula, is composed by bonsai tees, a fossilised ivy root and salt crystals that I've grown on the trees. I was interested in creating a hybrid between botanical and mineral elements, where the trees leafs are actually composed by salt crystals. Salt has been and is still used to prevent grass and other biological elements to grow and spread, so it was fascinating for me to create an oxymoron between form and content

solve et coagula


Orfeo is a sculpture in transparent resin that contains a yucca flower. In my resin works there is an inherent duplicity: on the one hand the death of the botanical element contained within them, on the other the eternal representation of a crystallized and infinite moment, torn from the cyclical nature and its inevitable passage.

Orfeo

in bloom is a resin work with a composed botanical element embedded within. the roots of the plant have been extracted and in their place I have grafted a plant with blooming flowers. when I work with botanical elements there is always  a link between the outer world and the inner structures of the human body, I like to create connections between shapes and symbols that you can find throughout the universe as a representation of the written underlying code of reality.

in bloom

This work stems from my fascination with Italian garden maps, which I modified and extruded, transforming them into an organic inlay made of butterfly wings and marble.
when I work with this type of materials there is always a link between micro and macro cosmos between interiority and exteriority that which is held by the bones and the architectural structures of our body is composed of ephemeral organic matter .. elements that change inexorably at the same moment they become memory, modified to be functional to our experience of the world, to our research, to our preservation.
This garden is also a mirror of what is outside .. of a world that is fading quickly .. the butterflies I used are the result of millions of years of adaptation to a territory that is fading at the speed of light .. like little memories that are obliterated by the ever-changing landscape of our mind. The attempt to block and hold them immortalizes them for an indefinite period but violently tears them away from their natural cycle, transforming them into a relic 

Psicomanzia

Geomanzia is a work that consists in a geometric marble structure topped with an inlay depicting a modified map of an Italian garden, a small tree grows on the structure digging it's roots through the empty crevices 
I wanted to create an object that contained in a single concept, a man made/architectural element and a natural element, that would be forced to live and change in unison in a state of symbiosis, the tree adapts to the marble but the marble also undergoes changes.

geomanzia

Still waters run deep is a living installation composed by six marble blocks each of which  presents a fragment of a river map seen from above. Each sculptural element contains an ecosystem of plants, moss, and different living components that grow and modify in time

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Giulia Manfredi