Non a tutti piace l'erba | Giacomo Zaganelli

On site between 23/05/2008 and 21/06/2008.

A work like Non A Tutti Piace L’Erba, created for Piazza Ghiberti in Florence in 2008, viewed by the public as an intervention promoted by the city council, was carried out by Zaganelli entirely, from the conception to the research funds, from the reuqest of permission to its promotion: two thousand square metres and sixty tonnes of grass laid down over a single night on the square, thanks to the help of the :esibisco. members, as well as a large number of passers-by surprised by the astonishing action.

An extraordinary action in an ordinary space of a city, highlighting the potential of an undervalued place, of which most citizens will never fully know the origins: as ephemeral and temporary as site-responsive art must be, activating a community and sowing new thoughts.

Elisa del Prete and Silvia Litardi