23 May \ 25 July 2010

The “Museo del Paesaggio” or Landscape Museum, is based on a single concept: to invite the visitor to reflect on the transformations in the world, as well as on the way in which man understands or may understand the world itself, whilst taking cues from the significance given each time to the term “landscape”. This is possible thanks to the very distinctive nature of the landscape: a concept that whilst indicating both the “thing” and “the image of the thing”, conducts one to examine the relationship between reality and its representation. The landscape becomes the subject of many working routes: through history, art, scientific research, agriculture, etc.
The route through the exhibition naturally takes advantage of single examples of landscapes, chosen from those that are particularly significant of the phenomenon that is to be highlighted each time. Amongst these single cases those drawn from the province of Siena have a predominant role. Thus the provincial territory becomes the opportunity to initiate a discussion that is nevertheless universal.

The villa and park of Monaciano is still today the centre of a vast estate that dates back to the seventeenth century. The actual layout is the result of a unitary project to transform the complex, completed in the second half of the 1800's by the owner Alessandro Pucci Sansedoni. The garden, which is circa three hectares, occupies a sloping space from the villa towards the countryside and is divided in to two parts, notably very different. The first destined for fl owers and water features, the second, in the lower part, makes up a romantic park with large woodland areas laid out with sinuous paths. The park has been restored over the last few years and documented in a small photographic exhibition open to the public, which has put together the greenery and the existing manufactured objects to create a contemporary element represented by a theatrical backdrop of greenery, installed in the lower part of the park.