Sunday Escape - PAV Living Art Park

Are you tired of visiting usual museums full of still life paintings, enigmatic abstract motifs or conceptual works that leave in your mind just a big question mark, because for you the only true incarnation of art is the nature?

Good! Then you'll love the Art of Living, a line of research in contemporary art that blends genetic testing, biology and artistic experience developed since the 90s of the twentieth century as an evolution of Land Art (inspiration of Rick Owens Men's SS18 collection) and Art in Nature.

If you want to know more the perfect place for you is in Turin.

It's called PAV - Living Art Park, a contemporary art experimental center officially born in 2008 and designed by Gianluca Cosmacini and Alessandro Fassi.
It is located in the heart of the former industrial area of Turin, 23 thousand square meters renovated and destined for green area. Where until the ë90s there was the Framtek, company owned by the Fiat producing components for cars, now it grows the grass of the park.

But what makes PAV special?
The will to create a dialogue between visitor, artwork, and nature through, for example, guided tours, training workshops, art workshops, playgrounds for children and teenagers.

The PAV divides its space between an octagonal building and the green area. The structure conceived according to the principles of bioclimatic architecture contains classrooms, educational workshops and interactive Bioma path by Piero Gilardisi that winds through seven modules, preceded by an atrium with various services and spaced out of ìmeditation stopî rooms.

The roof of the building, on the other hand, houses the Jardin Mandala, a 500-square-foot roof garden made of Sedum and grasses on a sand and pigment background designed by Gilles Clèment.
In the outdoor space, there are several works such as Pedogenesis by Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, La Folie du Pav by Emmanuel Louisgrand, Taking Over by Andrea Gedin and the most representative Trefle, a huge quadrilateral made by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

In addition, there is a flat lawn; an aromatic herb carpet; an installation with hives, sort of urban beekeeping experience; a garden cultivated by volunteers; A huge oven to bake organic bread.

Interesting, right?
If you want to know more about the Living Art Park and keep up-to-date on all of its initiatives, visit the official site.