2021 edition in Cannes
Folie Folia
By Kolb Livia et Alexe Virginie.
The garden, like a painting, begins with a blank canvas. Still stretched in the vertical position, it still waits for the first brushstroke.
THE GARDEN
The garden, like a painting, begins with a blank canvas. Still stretched in the vertical position, it still waits for the first brushstroke. We invite you to enter into the garden like a work of arts in the horizontal way, alive.
In the Matisse’s way, the garden is imagined like a collage on a large sheet of paper. Tinted with blue, the vegetation reflects the azure of the Mediterranean. The color is reminiscent of Yves Klein and his Anthropometries. Here, it is not the visitors who are invited to put the imprint of their bodies on the canvases, but the plants themselves, through a photographic process: the cyanotype. Following the example of the botanists of yesteryear who made plant impressions in situ, the canvases are transformed into an open-air herbarium. And as if the fabrics had flown away, the ceramic leaves planted in the garden evoke regional craftsmanship and its new generation.
The human and vegetal co-creation is the fruit of an incessant dialogue between the artist and the living.
Morocco
THE TEAM
Livia Kolb and Virginie Alexe form a complementary team combining artistic sensitivity, botanical knowledge and technical expertise. They have studied at the « École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles-Marseille ».
Livia is a DPLG landscape artist and illustrator. Specialist of the Mediterranean perimeter,
she lives in Morocco where she created “Palette Paysages”.
Virginie is a landscaper and gardener. She designs food gardens: ornamental and edible.
PARTNERS
Pépinière Sainte Marguerite, Yoann Pappalardo.