{ "id": 1206, "date": "2025-04-25T07:10:29", "date_gmt": "2025-04-25T07:10:29", "guid": { "rendered": "https:\/\/artecontinua.org\/?page_id=1206" }, "modified": "2025-07-30T16:04:18", "modified_gmt": "2025-07-30T16:04:18", "slug": "arte-per-la-riforestazione", "status": "publish", "type": "page", "link": "https:\/\/artecontinua.org\/en\/arte-per-la-riforestazione\/", "title": { "rendered": "Art for Reforestation" }, "content": { "rendered": "
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An urban reforestation project designed by Mario Cristiani<\/strong> and organised by Associazione Arte Continua<\/strong> in collaboration with the municipality of Prato<\/strong>commissioned from Professor Stefano Mancuso<\/strong> e PNAT<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"Art as oxygen for the mind, trees as oxygen for the body.... and vice versa\".
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Contemporary art becomes oxygen for the mind while plants give oxygen to the body, triggering a virtuous circle between art and nature: this is the idea behind the reforestation project supported by the Associazione Arte Continua in the context of Prato Forest City, commissioned to Stefano Mancuso and PNAT in collaboration with the Municipality of Prato.<\/p>

Continuous Art Association, thanks to the funds raised<\/strong> between May and June 2022 through joint auction and private treaty<\/strong> at Pandolfini auction house, with contemporary artworks donated in support of the initiative by more than 15 artists from the international art community<\/strong>, supports the creation of a green lung directly connected to the working-class neighbourhoods in the Tobbiana-Allende area of Prato.<\/p>

The planting of the first tree in the Neophyte Forest, the result of the project, took place on 4 October 2023 at 17:30<\/strong>day dedicated to the celebration of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy, unsurpassed model of a balanced relationship between Man and Nature.<\/p>

The park was inaugurated Wednesday 29 May at 18.30<\/strong> creating a green area with more than 150 deciduous and evergreen plants and over 400 shrubs, all chosen by Professor Mancuso on the basis of their origin from different parts of the world and now part of the visual landscape in our country. The park, located near a nucleus of residential housing<\/strong> public in the Tobbiana Allende district of Prato, covers an area of 7,500 square metres and is located in an area particularly prone to pollution. Therefore, we would like it to be a green lung capable of returning public space and contact with nature to the community, but also of absorbing 3,000 kg of CO2 per year and reducing fine particulate matter due to the intense traffic in the area.<\/p>

An olive tree from the Gardens of the Papal Villas in Castel Gandolfo donated by the Vatican's Laudato Si' Centre for Higher Education was also planted on 29 May, further emphasising the fundamental role of art in providing support to the fragile part of the community.<\/p>

The young plants have therefore been placed in what was an area that had been undervalued but which, thanks to this project, will become tree-lined and reclaimed, once again becoming usable not only by the inhabitants of the area but by the entire community.<\/p>

Download<\/a> the Press Release of the 29 May 2024 event.<\/p>

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In the park, along with the plants you will find Totems narrating donated works<\/strong>, who are the donor artists<\/strong>but also which plants were planted<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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