Il Nido
Date:
2025
Materials:
Bronze, local stone
Dimensions:
4m high
Exhibition history:
2025 Bosco Malerba Lauria, National Park of Pollino, Italy
Courtesy:
Lucy + Jorge Orta, with thanks to the Associazione ArtePollino and the Municipality of Lauria, Italy
'Il Nido' is an elegant 4-metre bronze tree drawing together three forms of representation. The trunk, a tower of gnarled olive roots with their knots and scars registering wounds inflicted; Pollino’s endangered birds, bearing witness to the fragile ecological balance of the woodland; and the local stones as mineral anchors, symbolising the resilience of geological time.
'Il Nido' is the artists’ first permanent public sculpture situated in Bosco Malerba Lauria and the third project in dialogue with the National Park of Pollino. A collaboration with Associazione ArtePollino with the support Municipality of Lauria, Italy.