The second edition of Arte a San Leonardo featured the involvement of Marzia Migliora, who at the end of a residency during 2023, created an Artist's Book and an Artist's Label to dress 999 bottles of San Leonardo vintage 2019. The theme of Migliora's research is "The Revolution of Deep Time" a profound reflection between geological times and human experience.
Marzia Migliora's research developed from two diametrically opposed scale elements: on one side, the vast basin of the Lessini mountains and Monte Baldo that encloses the estate, explored with the paleontologist and geologist Massimo Bernardi, head of the research and collections area of the Museo delle Scienze di Trento, and on the other, the microscopic tartar crystals, a purple powder generated by the wine fermentation process.
Artistic label by Marzia Migliora for
The title of the project "The Revolution of Deep Time" refers to imperceptible geological times, the results of which can only be glimpsed by observing rocks, the fossil remains of extinct animal and plant existences, and the movements of the earth's plates.
Inspired by these concepts, Marzia Migliora created three large drawings that gather in a single flow the different forms of life, both present and past: "Within the mountainous profile," the artist recounts, "I sketched a complex living system, a vast world of interconnections, grouping cells, organs, muscles, fossils, minerals, plants, marine creatures, barks, sperm, humans, and animals in motion, a macro and microsystem, a living community and its mutual relationships, the story of a shared world, a potential alphabet for a community made up of people, animals, plants, and spaces."
Starting from this large-format work, the artist produced a leporello that can be displayed in the domestic environment, in addition to three versions of labels to dress the bottles of San Leonardo 2019, each characterized by a detail taken from each of the three large drawings.
The artist
Marzia Migliora is an artist who employs a wide range of languages, including photography, video, sound, performance, installation, and drawing, to create works that elevate the simplest human activities into moments capable of narrating excerpts of collective history. Recurring themes in her work include memory as a tool for articulating the present and the analysis of work occupation as a statement of participation in the social sphere. Over thirty years of work, the artist has also depicted the human dynamics that have led to the capitalist paradoxes of industrial production as an extractive and divisive phenomenon of communities. In more recent years, her works have embraced a multi-species perspective, inclusive of animal and plant viewpoints that contribute to new and necessary visions in times of global climate crisis.
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