MAURO PAOLINI

Trees of the Future

Scultura ceramica di alberi immaginari deformati e adattivi, simbolo della trasformazione della natura nel futuro

Trees of the Future

“Trees of the Future” was born from a simple yet urgent question:

How will nature continue to live in the face of the changes that humanity produces every day?

Trees, symbols of life, hope, and rootedness, become here imagined forms, suspended between what we know and what may yet come. I reflected on climate and environmental change, on the pollution that moves through seas, rivers, and air, and on a human behavior that is too often unaware of—or indifferent to—the future.

These works are my artistic response to such questions. Not a judgment, but a reflection: nature, despite everything, will find a way to evolve, to adapt to its conditions, and to follow its own evolutionary laws.

I shaped semi-refractory clay while imagining a tree projected into the future. A different form, twisting upward, suggesting a possible evolution: branches searching for new air and new directions; a body that transforms itself in order to continue living.

Each tree is the result of experiments dedicated to the transformations of nature and inspired by the observation of human behaviors that place our environment at risk.
Through this research, I sought to imagine not destruction, but nature’s capacity to reinvent itself—to always find a path, a form, a gesture that leads it back to life.

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— Curatorial note

How will nature transform in response to the changes we experience every day?
These imagined trees are born from clay, color, and questions.
New forms that bend, adapt, and reinvent themselves in order to continue existing.
Nature always finds its way. Even into the future.

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