“Insolito Risveglio” – environmental art in Marina di Pietrasanta

Italian artist Stefano Pierotti has created Insolito Risveglio (unusual awakening) - an environmental sculpture complementing the seaside at Marina di Pietrasanta during the Easter break. An artistic response to the terrible storms that lashed Versilia in March, using the wood from fallen pine trees.

A very unusual awakening for anyone who was enjoying dawn on the Marina di Pietrasanta beach on 5 April, where Stefano Pierotti and the group of artists from “I 2 Luoghi” were intent on installing his environmental artwork in the sea. A 3.6 metre high pinewood sculpture, like black flames rising up from the sea in Fiumetto.

A fierce wind storm lashed Versilia on 5 March, the strength of which we saw with our own eyes during our visit for the workshop “The City and The Water, Architecture arts and self construction experiences for a new artisan area in Pietrasanta” to be held in September. Afterwards, while cleaning up the streets and gardens alongside so many others, Stefano Pierotti collected a few trunks from the pine trees that had been uprooted by the storm, to reuse the material as the starting point for his sculpture.

So, a work of art born from destruction, and used as the basis for the act of creating. Pierotti sawed out the various parts of the sculpture in his studio, then he used to fire to blacken it. 

The unusual positioning of the sculpture in the sea of Pietrasanta was on the one hand a reference to the storm and to the devastation it wreaked in the zone, but also a provocation: Pietrasanta has a thriving community of artists, but they don’t have a public space where they can exhibit their creations. 

So Stefano Pierotti chose the sea as the stage to give an extremely impacting visual, combining the natural elements of wood (matter), air (wind), fire (colour) and water (sea) for this “insolito risveglio” which was highly popular with visitors to the area and the web population alike. Environmental art the way we like it!

(Christiane Bürklein)

Project: Stefano Pierotti, http://www.stefanopierotti.com/
Year: 2015
Location: Marina di Pietrasanta Italy
Photography: © Paolo Vezzoni © Maurizio Bottazzi © Stefano Pierotti © Giulio Maggi
Link: 2Luoghi https://dueluoghi.wordpress.com/