The guided tour, for young people and adults, addresses the relationship between the artist and the environment. Starting from the Mid 1960s, Piero Gilardi (Turin 1942), one of the most important living Italian artists, invented the Tappeti Natura (“nature carpets”).
Taking his cue from real landscapes and glimpses, the artist “purifies” the pieces of nature he represents - the shore of a river, a beach, a forest - from the traces of man, to represent its pristine appearance. The paradox inherent in his practice is manipulating an industrial material - polyurethane foam - starting from a block, as if it were traditional marble. An artificial substance thus becomes the medium to represent its opposite, in a growing sensitivity towards the theme of ecology which will lead to the creation of the PAV (Living Art Park), a naturalistic island in the heart of a neighborhood with high construction density such as the former Lingotto of Turin.