Fondazione Tassara has decided to make available, on the occasion of the events related to Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, a part of its priceless collection of carpets, donated by Romain Zaleski, with the aim of making known and appreciated by the general public some artifacts usually intended for display in temporary exhibitions in the major museums of the world. Together with the Brescia Musei Foundation, co-promoter of the project, it has entrusted LETIA - Letizia Cariello and Giovanni Valagussa with the curatorship of the exhibition The knots of the gardens of Paradise, which will be held from 1 April to 5 November 2023 in the new spaces, restored and reopened to the public after about fifteen years, in the Great Mile of the Brescia Castle, where the Leonessa d'Italia Museum of the Risorgimento is also housed on the lower floor.

The exhibition project brings together a precious selection of 35 carpets from the Turkestan area, chosen from the large corpus of the Zaleski collection, which for the first time are exhibited to the public alongside a nucleus of contemporary art works related to the textile of Alighiero Boetti, Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind, Sheila Hicks, Ibrahim Mahama and Raùl De Nieves, which in an innovative way will be inserted, together with the multimedia projection on a large sailing screen by Wladimir Zaleski, in a single and unprecedented site-specific installation created by LETIA - Leticia Cariello. A "soft space" made of fabric, threads, taut ropes and carpets hung like banners or banners.