z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce the participation of Michele Guido in Giardino Project, Volume 6 • Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto • Wednesday, July 22 and Saturday, July 25 2026 Trepuzzi, Torre Pinta.
The sixth volume of giardino project, titled • Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto •, focuses on the artistic research of Michele Guido (Aradeo, Lecce, 1976), whose practice has long explored the relationships between botany, archaeobotany, ecology, rural architecture, and contemporary artistic practices. Volume 6 will take place on Wednesday, July 22, in the garden of Bibliò – Community Library in Trepuzzi, and on Saturday, July 25, at the historic Medieval Masseria of Torre Pinta (near Otranto).
Now in its seventh year, the curatorial project is made possible through the support and patronage of the Municipality of Trepuzzi, together with Bibliò – Community Library, under the patronage of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Salento, in collaboration with Fondazione Merz, hopefulmonster publisher, Lia Rumma Gallery, and Sara Zanin Gallery.
Curated by Giuseppe Amedeo Arnesano, this new edition is dedicated to a critical reading of the agricultural landscape conceived as a dispersed garden—a living organism in which human labor, spontaneous ecologies, vernacular architecture, and layered memories intertwine.
The concept of Volume 6 is based on the idea that the rural landscape is not merely a place of production, but a complex cultural ecosystem capable of generating knowledge, relationships, and imaginaries. This year, Michele Guido's presence once again roots the project within the territory, transforming the Salento countryside into a laboratory for observation and imagination.
The curatorial framework of Volume 6 offers a multidisciplinary exploration of the experimental research of the Apulian artist—represented in Italy by Lia Rumma Gallery (Naples and Milan) and Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery in Rome. It is structured around the natural cycle • Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto •, understood as a process of knowledge. Each stage of the plant's life cycle—from harvesting vegetables to the growing distance between food and the plant that produces it, from the repetition of agricultural gestures to the labor they require—becomes a way of observing, collecting, and understanding a sensitive grammar through which to reflect on our relationship with the land and its rhythms.
At the conclusion of the two Volume 6 events, two site-specific sound performances will be presented. The first, in Trepuzzi, features Roberto Laterza, aka (iii), an artist working with experimental electronics and live coding, who creates an ever-changing sonic environment through pre-composed structures and ephemeral code. The second, at Torre Pinta, features Alessandro Chieppa, whose slow, layered compositions explore drones, micro-variations, and gradual processes of emergence.
The events are free of charge. However, for organizational reasons, advance registration and confirmation of attendance are required via the registration form.
