Humus Park: the most important Land Art event in Italy

Art & Culture Slow Tour

15 June 2018

Art & Culture Slow Tour

Humus Park: the most important Land Art event in Italy

After two years, the province of Pordenone is again hosting Humus Park, the most important biennial Land Art event in Italy. For those who do not know, Land Art is a contemporary artistic form that uses natural materials taken from a territory, and where the works remain on display in the territory itself, until mother nature reclaims them. In thirteen days, in three different locations, over ninety artists from thirteen countries around the world and eight Italian schools of art and academies are involved in this magnificent event. The various works can be seen in Palù di Livenza, which became a “Unesco World Heritage” site in 2011, located between the villages of Caneva and Polcenigo. The park surrounding the Castello di Torre, the Villa Romana in Pordenone and, also in the beautiful town on the banks of the Noncello, the Parco del Seminario that since 2008, the first edition of the Humus Park, hosts the event. Nature offers the setting and its materials to different artists working in pairs: Italian and international artists choose them and work them to create unique works. The public looks for works often camouflaged with the environment, discovers them and interprets them in many cases, until Nature “reclaims them”. Numerous international artists will be present, including Peter Hess, the father of Land Art. Now you can no longer see the artists at work, but only their works and if you have not done so before mother nature takes its course, you should take the opportunity to visit them and find the ones you like best.