The garden of crystallized ideas, similarity of public work and the forces against it.

Museo Spazio Pubblico is pleased to present a new project visitable from June 14 to July 19 by Marcello Tedesco (Bologna, 1979) that innovatively and radically investigates the meaning of the public work. The project is housed both in the interior space of the Museum, which can be visited by appointment only, and in the adjacent garden, which can always be used by the community and visitors.

The installation designed in the outdoor public space is entitled The Garden of Crystallized Ideas. Numerous blocks of pink and gray rock salt are placed on slender steel structures. These ephemeral elements, perfectly assimilated and almost camouflaged in the landscape, are understood by Marcello Tedesco as sediments of crystallized ideas, immobile and inert manifestations of a past that somehow inhibits the formulation of new ideas.

After an articulated path of experimentation, the artist has arrived at the idea that the design of collective space today cannot be limited exclusively to the usual practice of placing in the common space a work on a scale appropriate to the context. In fact, this, regardless of its quality, has by its very nature an inherent divisive element, which contradicts the very idea of public space. The divisive element consists in the fact that the work, thus conceived, risks being an expression of a particular and narrow cultural and social sphere that is unlikely to relate to the totality of society.