PROJECT — Wild Weavings
The Macadame Collective brings to Campo di Brenzone the experience gained with CREO (2023–2025), transforming one of the most evocative places on Lake Garda into an art trail immersed in nature.
The project unfolds in two phases:
- an artistic residency dedicated to creating works within the landscape
- a final presentation involving the public in an immersive experience.
Wild Weavings develops as an evolution of the multi‑year project Artistic Identities, curated by Matteo Chincarini.
PURPOSE
The purpose of the project is to invite people to experience art and community, to live the natural places of our territory, and to discover virtuous associations and unique social projects. At the same time, the aim is to offer young artists sensitive to these themes an opportunity for visibility and formative experience, bringing them closer to curators and high‑level projects.
ARTISTS
The selected artists will be invited to participate in the artistic residency from Saturday 23 May to Sunday 31 May in Campo di Brenzone, hosted by the association Campo Teatro degli Ulivi at Casa Margherita. During this period, they will dedicate themselves full‑time to creating site‑specific artworks, mainly made with natural elements, to be installed along the path leading to the village as a restitution of their experience.
EVENT
The public presentation of the experience will take place on 30 May with a walking route from Brenzone to Campo, at the Teatro degli Ulivi. The walk will be guided by art curator Daniele Bergamaschi and writer Oscar Simonetti, who will narrate a mystical story through the installed artworks and the live music accompanying the viewing.
Upon arrival at the Teatro degli Ulivi, visitors will be able to see the four works by nationally renowned artists selected by curator Matteo Chincarini over the past four years, explained by the curator himself.
A shared dinner with sustainable food will follow, and finally there will be live music on the theatre stage.
The return home will be ensured by a strip of solar lights illuminating the forest at night; for the more adventurous, it will be possible to sleep in a tent near the theatre.
THEME
The selected artists will be invited to reflect on the relationship between human community, natural community, and mystical community. Guided by writer Oscar Simonetti, the only inhabitant of the place, they will collectively create a narrative linked to the lake, Campo, the forest, and the mountain, visualised through the artists’ works. The aim is to create a story that can entertain a child while also making an adult reflect; thus, they may draw on historical figures such as witches and perhaps build bridges to feminism, or on figures from nature to speak about our relationship with it, or again on fairy‑tale beings such as dwarves, elves, and nymphs. Humans and nature therefore collaborate, exchanging suggestions and reflections in an environment that is lightly anthropised yet surrounded by a forest where nature still has space to be creative and generative.
