Marco Basta, ERRATICO

Room 2

An ideal trajectory connected the entrance of the house with the garden. Marco Basta made this passage evident, bringing the outside in and creating a further threshold. His Gardens, designed on felt, were a sentimental mapping of places he had passed through, which, located in corners or spaces of passage, delineated a new geography. The fabric, produced by the Testori factory, was cut to measure for the doors of Casa Testori, but then readapted to those of the artist’s studio: thus becoming a passageway that does not only allow access to the next room. The contiguity with the outside world was also underlined by the use of an abandoned stone element in the garden in Novate Milanese, which became the basis for a sculpture: a vase, an oyster? In antiquity, oyster fossils were considered to be the ears of mythological beings and, in the present, they become an invitation to listen to the interior.

Marco Basta was born in1985. He lives and works in Milan.