从2024年6月8日起， Emilio Ferro将在San Rocco小教堂（位于从山顶通往著名的Vicoforte圣地的道路两旁）展示一件特殊的装置作品–“奇迹”（MIRACLE），这是由文化协会 VIA 发起的 “Landandart – andar per arte ”项目的一部分。

From June 8, 2024, Emilio Ferro presents MIRACLE, a site-specific installation conceived for the Chapel of San Rocco, located along the road that leads from the top of the hill to the famous Sanctuary of Vicoforte, as part of the project “Landandart – andar per arte” created by the cultural association VIA.

▼装置概览，Overview of the installation ©Roberto Conte

这位艺术家一直钟情于将人与自然、人造景观与自然景观、光与影、声音与寂静之间的深邃联系交织在一起的主题，这次他创作的作品将自然的物质性投射到神秘的超然性上。Ferro从景观出发，想象出穿越古建筑结构的新轨迹，并提出了尚未探索的路径。

The artist, who has always been attracted to themes that interweave the profound implications between human beings and nature, man-made and natural landscapes, light and shadow, sound and silence, on this occasion creates a work that projects the materiality of nature toward mystical transcendence . Ferro starts from the landscape to imagine new trajectories that traverse the architecture of the ancient building and suggest unexplored paths.

▼灯光特写，Close-up of the light ©Roberto Conte

该装置的第一个元素是一个尖形的悬挂灯金属结构，总长度超过18米，穿过教堂的内部空间，向外投射，指向圣殿。在后面的外部空间，一棵大树支撑着一条超过6米长的金属光线:一股从地面萌发的生命力，由于树枝的温柔引导，它将自己引向教堂，最终到达发光的箭头结束，明确地引导着今天的朝圣者。

The first element of the installation consists of a metal structure of suspended light, with a pointed shape, with a total development of more than 18 meters, which crosses the chapel’s interior space projecting outwards and pointing the way to the sanctuary . In the outer space behind, a large tree supports a long metal line of light of more than 6 meters : a generating force that germinates from the ground and, thanks to the gentle guidance of the branches, directs itself toward the Chapel, to complete its path in the luminous arrow that ideally guides today’s pilgrim.

▼教堂入口，Entrance of the chapel ©Roberto Conte

▼入口特写，Close-up of the entrance ©Roberto Conte

不规则的自然线条与尖锐的几何形状混合在一起，在对立的力量之间创造了动态平衡。Emilio Ferro将一种物理的同时又神秘的体验转移到他的作品中，光的温暖和觉醒之意与金属元素交织在一起，他利用金属元素的坚固性形成升华之感。

The irregularities of natural lines mingle with sharp geometric forms, creating a dynamic balance between opposing forces. A physical and at the same time mystical experience that Emilio Ferro transfers into his work where the warmth and evocative power of light is intertwined with the metallic element, whose strength he harnesses to the point of sublimation.

▼环境装置，Installation in the context ©Roberto Conte

▼特写，Close-up ©Roberto Conte

马蒂亚-博尔托洛尼（Mattia Bortoloni）在Vicoforte圣殿中创作的壁画给了这位艺术家灵感：在世界最大的椭圆形穹顶下绘制的巨大壁画，场景艺术的崇高技法增强了观察者超然的欲望，而这种欲望已经被散布在六千多平方米面积上的图案所激发。在Ferro的作品中，精神禁欲的动力被转化为光，这种物质一如既往地难以捉摸，它从San Rocco教堂的封闭空间中找到了通往天空的道路。

▼室内概览，Overview of the interior ©Roberto Conte

The artist is inspired by the pictorial field created by Mattia Bortoloni in the Sanctuary of Vicoforte: that very immense fresco painted under the largest elliptical dome in the world, where the sublime technique of scenographic artifices increases in the observer the desire for transcendence already inspired by the tromp-l’oeil scattered over an area of more than six thousand square meters. An impetus to spiritual asceticism that in Ferro’s work is transformed into light, matter as elusive as ever, which from the enclosed space of the Chapel of San Rocco finds a way out into the sky.

▼体验过程，Process of the experience ©Roberto Conte

艺术家专为作品创作的音乐使装置更加完整：在录制San Rocco教堂和圣殿的磁场以及周围景观中的声音后，Ferro提取小样并创作了环绕其作品的心理声学配乐。

A sound intervention created by the artist for the occasion is completing the installation: after recording the magnetic fields present in the Chapel of San Rocco and the sanctuary, and the sounds coming from the surrounding landscape, Ferro sampled some fragments of them to compose the psychoacoustic soundtrack that embraces his work.

▼夜景，Night view ©Roberto Conte

许多像San Rocco这样的教堂分散遍布于Monregalese地区，在古代如同地图一样，指引着朝圣者前往Vicoforte圣殿，那里是他们旅途的目的地。大约17世纪，成千上万的人历经艰辛来到这里朝圣，终于来到这个因无数奇迹而闻名的礼拜场所，其重要性堪比现代的Lourdes和Medjugorje圣殿。对精神的探寻，伴随着对见证奇迹的渴望，赋予了这段旅途深刻的象征意义。同样，当下的朝圣者也踏上自然与艺术之旅，寻找超凡脱俗的神性、本性、以及探索与升华之意。这是一种深层次的变革之旅。

Chapels such as that of San Rocco, scattered throughout the Monregalese territory, constituted in ancient times a sort of map that pilgrims heading to the Sanctuary of Vicoforte used as reference points in their itinerary. Around the 17th century, thousands of faithful faced long and difficult journeys to reach this place of worship, which became famous for its numerous miracles and whose importance was comparable to the modern sanctuaries of Lourdes and Medjugorje. The spiritual quest, accompanied by the hope of witnessing a miracle, gave this journey a deep and symbolic significance. Similarly, today the contemporary pilgrim undertakes the journey into nature and art in search of extra- ordinary sensations, of grounding, but also of discovery and elevation. A profoundly transformative experience.

▼精神性，Sense of spirit ©Roberto Conte

2022年，应赞助人的邀请，艺术家参观了San Rocco小教堂，一棵野樱桃树被完全烧毁，毫无生气的阴影笼罩着整个教堂。然而，尽管这棵树似乎注定要光秃秃地枯萎下去，但在2024年的装置准备过程中，却发生了令人惊讶的变化：树枝上萌发出羞涩的新芽，就在作品完成之前，树上绽放出缤纷的花朵。这一事件与艺术家的创作过程完美契合，诞生了《奇迹》，见证了重生与蜕变。

When in 2022 at the invitation of the patron, the artist visited the Chapel of San Rocco, a wild cherry tree, completely burned , dominated the atmosphere with its lifeless shadow. However, although the tree seemed destined to remain bare and flayed, during the preparations for the installation in 2024, a surprising change occurred: shy buds sprouted on the branches and, just before the work was completed, the tree exploded in a riot of blossoms. This event, in perfect harmony with the artist’s creative process, gave birth to MIRACLE, a testimony to rebirth and transformation.

▼特写，Close-up ©Roberto Conte

Emilio Ferro的MIRACLE装置受VIA文化协会委托，VIA由Giulia Carbone, Geremia Siboni和Sergio Basso创立，得益于他们巡回展中的概念“Chiese a Porte Aperte”，可以翻译为“敞开大门的教堂”。游客可以在一周中的任何一天通过智能手机上的专用应用程序预订参观教堂和灯光艺术装置半小时，免费享受装置。

Emilio Ferro’s MIRACLE installation is commissioned by the cultural association VIA, founded by Giulia Carbone, Geremia Siboni and Sergio Basso, and thanks to their initiative is part of the “Chiese a Porte Aperte ” circuit, which could be translated as “open door churches“. Visitors will be able to freely enjoy the installation by booking a visit to the chapel and the light art installation for half an hour, via a dedicated app on smartphones , any day of the week.

▼城市景色，Urban landscape ©Roberto Conte

Cappella di San Rocco (sec. XVI; XVII)

Via San Rocco, Vicoforte (CN)

From June 8, 2024