Private Landscape

A conversation with Anna Scalfi Eghenter and the curators of the exhibition Patrimonio: Cecilia Canziani e Davide Ferri

“Private Landscape. Land can be a property, landscape cannot. Land cannot be esthetically privatised. Perception as a gesture is required by Art. 9 of Italian Constitution, which refers to the conservation of landscape. Instead, environment, construction industry and city planning is disiplined by administrative law. The marble plaque can be used to point out at a compromised landscape and specify its extention. It also gives the possibility to candidate a point of view, signelled by an inlaid plaque.”

Anna Scalfi Eghenter
Paesaggio Privato, 2016
Marble
Courtesy the artist

Anna Scalfi Eghenter, born in Trento in 1965, where she lives and works. The artist uses her practice as a tool of intervention on the real. Her education in Sociology directs her reaserch towards organisational experiences that analyse the interrelation between the rules of a context and the limits of actions allowed withing. Independent artist, the process is integral part of her work and takes into account the environmnet, production and institutions as part of the project. PhD in Mananging Studies at Essex Business School, MSc Sociologia University of Trento, MFA at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico” and at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. She has exhibited works at 16° Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo Rome, MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Biennale Democrazia Turin, MAG Museo Alto Garda, Kadist Art Fondation Paris, Reale Accademia di Spagna a Roma, Palais de la Bourse a Bruxelles, Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Guarene, MART – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Manifesta7 parallelevents. Univeristy of Turin, Libera Università di Bolzano, FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, University of Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Akademia Pedagogiczna Krakow, Freie Universität Berlin, ESCP-EAP Paris, University of Trento. www.scalfiandeghenter.com