In the second installment of the cycle Traveling Looks we present “Around the world in eight gardens… and a half”, a tour hand in hand with Ignacio Somovilla through some of the most iconic gardens in the world in which their profound cultural and artistic value stands out. A journey through time and space where you can participate in the continuous task of rebuilding the lost paradise..
someone said “The garden takes care of those who take care of it”… This brief quote starts a trip around the Globe, visiting some iconic gardens that marked different ways of recreating orchards; from the free gardens of Bloomsbury, to the garden city that the emperor Hadrian created in Tivoli, passing through the water games of Villa d'Este, the absolute formalism of Vaux-le-Vicomte, the perfect Arcadia of Stourhead or the therapeutic garden that Derek Jarman created by scratching a painful beauty into the landscape surrounding Prospect Cottage… With all these scales we want to take a trip through time and space in pursuit of this continuous task of rebuilding the lost paradise.. Literature, cine, paint, sculpture add to this journey in which each garden is an exciting and unique story.
The director of the cycle, UV professor and writer Nicolas Bas, accompanies us in each of the sessions, having previously given various talks at the Foundation, recently, in the cycle Dialogues Cañada Blanch, and on our blog: Traveling is getting lost.
