IGREEN AT MUSEO DEL FIUME DI NAZZANO

The Museo del Fiume (the River Museum) di Nazzano presents IGREEN, an international exhibition project promoted by BLU Spazio delle Arti, under the patronage of the Comune di Nazzano and curated by Barbara Pavan. Bringing together seventeen artists, the exhibition explores the semantic, symbolic and political complexity of “green” in the contemporary moment, critically unpacking one of the most pervasive and contested terms in today’s global public discourse.

The exhibition features works by Luciana Aironi, Brigitte Amarger, Gudrun Bartenberger, Silvia Beccaria, Silvia Bellu, Lindiwe Bhebe, Susanna Cati, Norberto Cenci, Magdalena Fermina, Monica Giovinazzi, Rolands Krutovs, Naomi Middelmann, Karola Pezarro, Sonia Izn Piscicelli, Liliana Rothschild, Lalla Thord and Francesca Torchia, each invited to engage with a color that has become a paradigm. Today, “green” operates as a shorthand for sustainability, yet it is also an ambiguous notion – frequently reduced to slogan, subject to instrumental appropriation and gradual semantic erosion. While its widespread use has amplified its visibility in political and economic debates, it has simultaneously destabilized its conceptual boundaries.

IGREEN reopens the meaning of green through contemporary artistic practice, reframing it as a field of inquiry. What images, memories and emotions does this color activate today? Which dimensions of experience does it resonate with? What models of relationship between human beings and the environment does it render visible – or help obscure – within dominant sustainability narratives? And what contradictions surface behind the rhetoric of “green” as a promise of balance? Within the exhibition, green is not merely a chromatic category or symbolic sign, but a space of tension between ecology and artifice, between imaginaries of regeneration and dynamics of consumption, between nature and cultural construction. The project explores the multiple inflections of green in the present, foregrounding the forms of harmony and dissonance that structure the relationship between humanity, matter and the planet’s ongoing processes of transformation.

Through a range of heterogeneous visual languages, the exhibition generates a plurality of aesthetic, ethical and political reflections. The works share a concrete commitment to the conscious use of materials and resources, privileging processes of reuse and upcycling that establish a direct dialogue with both the public and the local context hosting the project.

Promoted by BLU Spazio delle Arti – an independent cultural space inaugurated in Rome in 2023 by RAABE APS – IGREEN represents the second chapter of a broader curatorial initiative dedicated to the chromatic dimensions of the planet. Grounded in a vision of art as a tool for awareness, regeneration and social transformation, BLU Spazio delle Arti supports practices that intertwine aesthetic research, environmental responsibility and cultural participation. Within this framework, upcycling assumes a central role: not merely as a technical process, but as a critical and political stance that transforms waste into renewed symbolic and aesthetic possibility. Art thus becomes a space of inquiry and connection between culture, environment and community – capable of fostering new forms of awareness and imagining alternative ways of inhabiting the world.

The exhibition is on view from 14 to 28 March 2026.