Linda Tegg’s New Installation in Milan
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The Australian artist Linda Tegg has created a new installation inside Jil Sander’s headquarters in Milan, using plants gathered from around the city, reports dezeen.The Melbourne-based artist worked with the fashion brand’s joint creative directors, LuciLinda Tegg’s New Installation in Milan
The Australian artist Linda Tegg has created a new installation inside Jil Sander’s headquarters in Milan, using plants gathered from around the city, reports dezeen.The Melbourne-based artist worked with the fashion brand’s joint creative directors, Lucie and Luke Meier to develop the Adjacent Fields installation, on the show for the duration of Milan Design Week. Tegg explored some of Milan’s abandoned industrial sites with garden designer Matteo Foschi to source what she calls “spontaneous plants” that grow wild in the city.According to the dezeen report, the installation brings together species including mosses, succulents, blackberry, common chickweed, geranium, ivy, scutch grass, and wild sage, which grow up through the pavement, through cracks in buildings or on disused patches of land.Tegg used the plants to take on a different status and help to promote a deeper appreciation of nature in the city, by removing them from their urban context and arranging them in a gallery-like setting.The only other materials used in the installation are standard nursery crates and geotextile bags containing soil required to support the greenery’s growth.The containers are arranged like a series of islands that create paths in between, so staff and visitors can stroll through the artwork, getting close enough to smell the foliage and observe small insects living among the plants.Lighting installation by Nic Burnham of NDYLight was developed specifically to provide the correct intensity and spectrum of light to support the plants’ growth.A few images are also on display, taken by Tegg’s husband and collaborator David Fox, in the windows of Jil Sander’s Milanese flagship store, where they provide an alternate but complementary view of the installation. Documenting the plants around the city, the photographs are compiled in a large-format book presented in another room adjacent to the installation.The artwork will now be reconfigured into a smaller version that will remain in the studios, with the surplus plants being returned to the sites they were sourced from.The artwork, which was on display to the public through April 14, will be reconfigured into a smaller version that will remain in the studios, with the surplus plants being returned to the sites they were sourced from.The permanent assemblage will require nurturing by the staff at Jil Sander’s headquarters and is intended to provide a constant reminder of the need to work and live more sustainably, in harmony with nature. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more