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Abbaye de Roseland

@Miguel Chevalier, troisième nature
@Miguel Chevalier, troisième nature

Roseland's Abbay - Payssages Fundation

2020

Within the framework of the 6th edition of the OVNi Festival, the Payssages Foundation presents two great international artists, the artist-plastician Miguel Chevalier and the composer Michel Redolfi. It is a creation of generative virtual reality accompanied by original music, entitled Third Nature. It is hosted by the laboratoire des paysages du futur – Payssages, whose president is the landscape artist Michel Péna. We find ourselves in the middle of a fake abbey full of enigmas – Roseland Abbey, which served as a source of inspiration for the two creators. The crypt, the corridors, the garden – these intimate and enigmatic parts of the site become the sites of a new experience between man and nature, art and culture

 

@Miguel Chevalier, Troisième nature
@Miguel Chevalier, Troisième nature

Miguel Chevalier - Michel Redolfi

The third nature

The third nature will undoubtedly be made of the agreement finally found between the external nature and the internal nature of man. Cicero spoke of second nature, when contemplating the Roman countryside, to designate this nature transformed and manipulated by man to meet his material needs. From the Renaissance onwards, another nature was experimented with in the very heart of the environmental creations that we today call « gardens » … Poliphile’s Dream preceded the realization of Italian humanist gardens. The philosopher Jacopo Bonfadio evoked the idea of a third nature. On the occasion of the OVNi 2020, two renowned artists – Miguel Chevalier and Michel Redolfi – wished to contribute to the expression of this concept through their works.