Anthurium. Parla, mio fiore

The result of a unique and extraordinary encounter between the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo and Tiziana Cera Rosco, this volume restores the continuous dialogue between place and artist in this pioneering residence desired by SiMuA, in which the theme of living is dominant.

Always attentive to the relationship between man, nature and language, Tiziana Cera Rosco worked for a year in the Botanical Garden, attentive to the ecological theme, choosing seaweed as the dominant material of the work, wearing a dress as a uniform, transforming a tool shed into a true habitat, studio, cottage and rural church, a concentration of life and work that mirrors exactly the artist's modus vivendi and operandi: ‘language is the home of being and man lives in its dwelling’ Heidegger.

This is how “Anthurium, speaks my flower”, the exhibition that exhibits, in two venues in the city of Palermo, one scientific and one religious, this full-bodied and complex research work, with a strong aesthetic and emotional impact. Amidst large installation sheets of vegetable shrouds and pomegranate vulvas, beating and drying techniques, incursions of sculpture, seaweed, barbed tree barks, performances and artist's books, there are over 80 works in the volume, strong in philosophical, mythological and spiritual echoes, which represent, with SiMuA's acquisition of Erbario Notturno - the first of the herbaria called Anthurium by Tiziana Cera Rosco and composed of 490 photo-impressed monotypes - the crowning achievement of an encounter with the Botanical Garden and a long autobiographical work.