The Acanthus of Vanessa Cardui

Artist Residency Summer 2025 →The Acanthus of Vanessa Cardui September with Donata Lazzarini September brought a new chapter in the Vanessa Cardui artist residency program, a project that weaves together nature, art, and experimentation in a continuous dialogue with the Madonie landscape. At September, 2025, artist Donata Lazzarini stayed in the casina on our farm, […]

Pause in Color, or the Oleander

Artist Residency Summer 2025 →Pause in Color, or the Oleander August 12–17 with Genuardi-Ruta and Angelo Leonardo From August 12 to 17, 2025, the Vanessa Cardui organic farm, located in Contrada Pozzetti, Collesano, hosted a new artist residency in Sicily, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai and part of the summer program dedicated to fostering dialogue […]

Cultivating Photographs

Saturday, July 12, 2025 →Cultivating Photographs Almudena Romero On Saturday, July 12, under the shade of the ancient olive tree, we gathered to share the outcomes of Cultivating Photographs—a project born from the encounter between artist and photographer Almudena Romero (Madrid, 1986) and the plants of the estate during her residency from July 2 to […]

NO ADDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Thursday, July 20, 2023 → NO ADDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY Fabrizio Sartori is a Roman artist working with different expressive means: painting, drawing, performance and lately with embroidery. The meeting today is divided into three phases, a first moment in which we will try some techniques of breathing, at a later time we will come into contact […]

MEETINGS UNDER THE IMPOSING OLIVE TREE

Summer 2023 → MEETINGS UNDER THE IMPOSING OLIVE TREE On Thursday, July 20th, at 6:30 PM, the gatherings continue under the imposing olive tree of Vanessa Cardui, exploring this year the various ways of embracing time within a slow and contemplative dimension.  The inaugural session will feature a conversation with Fabrizio Sartori, an artist skilled […]

CATERPILLAR-BUTTERFLY METAMORPHOSIS

June 19, 2021 → CATERPILLAR-BUTTERFLY METAMORPHOSIS On Saturday 19 June 2021 at 6:45 pm at Vanessa Cardui farm, under the imposing olive tree, we – with the Aterraterra Collective, the butterfly-lover Salvatore Varco and the actress Patrizia D’Antona – celebrated the miracle of the many metamorphoses that populate earth and sky. In the name of […]

Notes from the first banquet under the imposing olive tree

May 23, 2021 → Notes from the first banquet under the imposing olive tree On the occasion of the artist residency of the Aterreterra collective (Luca Cinquemani and Fabio Aranzulla). During the first symposium of the artist residency project, held at the Vanessa Cardui farm under the great olive tree, a rare atmosphere immediately took […]