The hidden garden of Peter Eisenman

At the Third Venice Architecture Biennale in 1985, Peter Eisenman enchanted visitors with his installation Romeo and Juliet. Almost twenty years later, in a different place but one which is similar in terms of its historical intensity, he has designed a “hidden garden”. Entitled “The garden of lost steps”, it recalls the poetry of Italo Calvino and his Path to the Nest of Spiders.

The installation plays on the relationship between the inside and outside of the Museum of Castelvecchio, restored by Carlo Scarpa in 1956. Eisenman follows the profile of ancient architecture, occupying the external courtyard with an artificial ‘landscape’ made up of five volumes, appearing to react to the cuts in the walls of the castle. L.B.

26.6.2004-3.10.2004
Peter Eisenman. Il giardino dei passi perduti
Museo di Castelvecchio
corso Castelvecchio 2, Verona
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