Green Platform takes a complex critical view designed to examine at stake in an interdisciplinary fashion the issue of the environment in the dual sense of a crisis in our thermo-industrial society based on non-renewable sources of energy and of an ecological crisis caused by pollution and by the worrying overheating of our planet. The problem of ecology cannot be confined merely to an environmental approach, it needs to be analyzed and understood in its myriad philosophical, psychological, environmental, economic and social implications. Thus ecology is no longer defined solely as a natural science but as a science of interrelations, confines and cross-border osmosis, the focal link in the partnership between nature and culture.
The exhibition presents a series of works by international artists who, acting in the wake of the pioneer experience that developed in the avant-garde movements of the Sixties and Seventies, address the issues of the environment, ecology and sustainability. Different artistic approaches and attitudes are compared, ranging from an awareness of the critical state of the everyday and pragmatic relationship between man and nature, to the choice of sustainable practices that put at stake a new idea of progress, to a creative pro-activism that pursues a real ecological struggle through the artistic languages.
Not only thought as an exhibition but as a working composite platform, Green Platform is based on the attempt of offering various kinds of active experience: workshops with artists and other players in the environmental associations and NGO’s, a series of lectures with experts in various relevant disciplines and the screening of videos and documentaries on environment-related issues. The exhibition’s catalogue with entries by international authors from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures (from economy to architecture, from social sciences to public art) sets up a perfect tool for reflecting about a new idea of art and about its possible, new and “sustainable” development.
Opening hours
daily 10.00 am – 8.00 pm
Thursday 10.00 am – 11.00 pm
Monday closed
Tickets
full price € 5,00
valid for one month*
events included
Reduced € 4,00
for university students, holders
of ATAF tickets, of Trenitalia inter-
national tickets or Eurorail Italy
Passes, Touring Club members
and ControRadio, CartOne card
holders and Festival Fabbrica
Europa ticket holders
Schools € 3,00
Special € 10,00
combined ticket with the
exhibition at First Floor
*max 5 entries
Special thanks to:
Dipartimento di Progettazione dell’Architettura (Università degli Studi di Firenze) for the workshop of Alterazioni Video realized in cooperation with Crossing LAB coordinated by prof. Giacomo Pirazzoli
Festival CinemAmbiente for the screenings’ programme
ISIA – Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (with the coordination of the Professor Antonio Glessi) and the engineers Filippo Ginanni and Giacomo Pancani for the workshop with Nikola Uzunovski
Inachis association for The Green Sunday
We especially thank Terra Futura – Mostra/Convegno Internazionale
for their support