BIENNALE ARTE DEL PAESAGGIO
Time Gravity
A cura di Giada Rodaini e Jade Vlietstra
Sophie Ko – Luca Pozzi
Opening Friday 20 June 2025, 18–24
Arte nel Paesaggio 2025, Time Gravity explores the concept of TIME, understood as the rhythm of the universe and the cycle of nature—constantly and endlessly changing. At the same time, it is seen as a fragment of time with a qualitative and relative value.
From this arises a reflection on morphology, not as a fixed, completed, and time-bound form, but—like the landscape itself—as something constantly evolving.
DRAGON’S EGG
Luca Pozzi
Born in Milan in 1983, he is an artist and interdisciplinary mediator. Inspired by the worlds of art, physics, multi-messenger cosmology, and computer science, after earning a degree in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and further specializations in Computer Graphics and Systems, he began collaborating with visionary scientific communities such as Loop Quantum Gravity (PI), Compact Muon Solenoid (CERN), and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (INFN, NASA).
Website: www.lucapozzi.com
Through his study of quantum gravity, cosmology, and particle physics, his theoretical research has evolved into a series of hybrid installations featuring magnetic sculptures, levitating objects, VR/AR experiences, and a performative use of photography marked by a disorienting sense of suspended time and multidimensionality. His works incorporate symbolic objects such as dragon eggs, magnets, and images of subatomic particles, which become metaphors for physical phenomena.
Through these elements, Pozzi invites viewers to question the structure of the universe and our perception of it.
GEOGRAFIE TEMPORALI
Sophie Ko
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi and later specialized at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and her works have received recognition in major art competitions.
Website: www.sophieko.space
Sophie Ko, a Georgian artist based in Italy, creates a visual language that moves between the physicality of matter and the abstraction of time. Her works, often made with natural pigments, ashes, and organic materials, become maps of a journey through memory, transformation, and transience. Ko doesn’t simply represent time; she embodies it, making it live on the surface of her works and in her installations, creating what she calls “temporal geographies.”
The pigments, ashes, and organic materials she uses are chosen for their ability to change, react to the environment, and tell a story that goes beyond the moment of creation.
Ko entrusts matter with the task of being a witness of time, becoming a living archive of transformations. Her works are not inert surfaces but fields of forces, where past, present, and future coexist in constant tension. Each layer of color, each trace of ash, is a crystallized fragment of time, a moment resisting its own dissolution.
Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo in Semifonte, a symbolic landmark of the region.
The chapel – commissioned by Giovan Battista Capponi and designed by Santi di Tito – was built at the end of the 16th century in memory of the lost city of Semifonte. Its dome is one-eighth the size of Brunelleschi’s dome for the Cathedral of Florence.
Semifonte was an imperial-aligned fortress during a period of intense conflict between city-states and the Emperor. Its strategic position along key communication routes – the Via Francigena and the Via Volterrana – sparked a long-lasting war with Florence.
In 1202, the fortress surrendered to the army led by Florence, Semifonte was destroyed, and the Florentine Republic issued a decree banning any reconstruction on the site.
In the centuries following Semifonte’s fall, only one exception to the strict ban was made: the Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo.
Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo – Semifonte
SP 50 Di S. Donnino, 50028 Barberino Tavarnelle FI
www.summofonte.org
By appointment:
Phone / WhatsApp: +39 392 098 9829 (Mon – Wed – Fri, from 2 to 6 PM)
Email: info@summofonte.org
Chianti Multifunctional Observatory (OPC) is a scientific facility dedicated to research, education, and outreach, promoting the concept of the “Third Culture”, the integration of scientific and humanistic knowledge.
With its four observatories – Astronomical, Geoseismic, Meteorological, and Environmental – OPC is a rare and successful example of collaboration between professional researchers (who come here from across the country and the world) and enthusiasts of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds.
OPC’s mission is to make science an inclusive experience, offering itself as a laboratory for scientific research and education, as well as a cultural hub and a space for community gathering.
Chianti Multifunctional Observatory
Strada Provinciale Castellina in Chianti SP101 – Km 9.25
50028 – Barberino Tavarnelle (Florence, IT)
www.osservatoriochianti.it
By appointment:
Phone / WhatsApp: +39 333 1192517 (from 12–2 PM and 6–9 PM)
Email: prenota@osservatoriochianti.it
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