The Perugia Foundation presents the exhibition NATURE/UTOPIA: art between ecology, reuse, and future curated by Marco Tonelli, which from April 22 to November 3 will animate the rooms of Palazzo Baldeschi with a path and a set-up that aims to tell the very current themes of the relationship between man and nature and its future.

The inspiration around which this research revolves is the legendary republic of Utopia imagined in the 16th century by the English humanist Thomas More in his eponymous tale, where the protagonist is a land connected to reality but also independent, not a mirage but a possible world. Similarly, contemporary art is a kind of happy island, where everything is sustainable because it increases the wealth of the world, both in terms of forms and thought.

The role of art, in fact, is not to solve problems, but to represent them in its own way, re-imagining them in a specific context, where everything is possible, according to the rules of the language of forms, aesthetic thought, and the concept of artistic creativity. 

Thus, in the exhibition NATURE/UTOPIA: art between ecology, reuse, and future, art serves to reflect on issues related to ecology, the relationship between man and nature, sustainability, reuse of materials, and the redesign of the living space of human beings in relation to the natural environment. To do this, 13 artists have been chosen, protagonists of the Italian and European cultural scene, American and coming from non-European contexts, such as Cameroon and Mozambique, artists who have made the concept of utopia, reuse, project, and nature their basic poetics since the 1960s, each with their own specific characteristics as demonstrated by the works chosen for the exhibition path made with traditional but also unexpected and innovative materials.