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May 25, 2011 1:24 pm

On May 20, the West 8 instal­la­tion ​‘Il Par­adiso Nascos­to’ (The Stolen Par­adise) for the MAXXI Muse­um’s exhi­bi­tion series Nature was opened to the pub­lic. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures an instal­la­tion of trans­par­ent biopoly­mer tree sil­hou­ettes, whose light dif­fu­sion, sub­tle shad­ows, lay­ered strat­i­fi­ca­tion and del­i­cate move­ment cre­ates a fan­tas­ti­cal atmos­phere. It is a light, sen­su­ous instal­la­tion whose coun­ter­part, in the form of 21 cor-ten steel tree stump sil­hou­ettes, is found in the muse­um court­yard. The instal­la­tion is accom­pa­nied by sev­en of West 8’s projects which share the same spir­it of poet­ic nar­ra­tive as a dia­logue between the arti­fi­cial and the nat­ur­al: Lied­sche Rijn park, the East­ern Scheldt Storm Surge Bar­ri­er, the Bridges in Bor­neo-Sporen­burg, the Botan­ic Bridge in Gwangju, as well as the more recent Gov­er­nors Island Park in New York, Mia­mi Beach Sound­Scape / Lin­coln Park, and the Madrid RIO urban plan.