Andrea M.N Mati (Pistoia, 1960 – )
The landscape designer and artist Andrea M. N. Mati has engaged in a longstanding dialogue with Giuliano Gori on all aspects of nature, including writings in prose and poetry about nature. After the devastating windstorm that struck the park on March 5, 2015, their conversation shifted towards a reparative act that could replace the 550 historic trees lost in a single night. This led to the creation of the artwork Focus, composed of 30 tall cypress trees, symbolizing the crucial role that nature plays in environmental art at Celle.
Mati explained, “With Giuliano Gori, ourgenius loci, we imagined that, ideally, the thirty cypresses could represent thirty poets and artists.” Arranged in four rows, these cypresses converge toward a “focal point” from which Sandro Veronesi’s Poets’ Greenhouseproject emerged.
