05.01.2017 Gardens of Bomarzo
Here the paths dotted with thirty monstrous sculptures seem to be reminiscent of a journey into the mysteries of antiquity…
Here the paths dotted with thirty monstrous sculptures seem to be reminiscent of a journey into the mysteries of antiquity…
The English garden presents a bucolic landscape that carries the gaze forwards and outwards, takes the walker by surprise and has the mind dreaming…
“There is another world but it is in this one” (Paul Eluard)
The only word in this tale that is clear, certain and luminous is garden, which also names it.
Piet Oudolf’s long and creative career expanded the conceptual framework of the New Perennial Mouvement to ecological considerations and an arrangement of plants that was more natural and adapted to the local biotope.
However framed the image may be, it is neither a reflection of reality nor does it reveal the truth. It masks it.
The original model of the garden is mythological.