The exhibition 'Systema Naturæ #3' is part of the trilogy that On the Contemporary - in the Garden addresses Nature. The interpreters are Marcella Barone, Antonino Bove, Michel Couturier, Marta Ferro, Stefania Galegati, Sebastiano Guerrera, Anna Guillot, Gianluca Lombardo, Diego Miguel Mirabella, Rachel Morellet, Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Philippe Terrier-Hermann, Francesco Voltolina.

Conceived by Guillot for the garden-house On the Contemporary in Caltanissetta, this third and final step of the project takes on, compared to the two previous ones, additional points of view requiring particular synaesthetic listening.

[...] It so happens that from its depths the garden communicates its breath and emits a voice through the sound of the site-specific installation "Under-Breath" by Marcella Barone, while flashes of light and foliage guide the movement of a hand and a thought, and then again of a hand, in the video "In Between" by Gianluca Lombardo, sonorised by Barone. It happens that Gertrud Moser-Wagner sets out with an ethological flair to decode with "solidarity" – again in video form – the understanding between 12 turtles placed in action on a metal plate. That, still between the lines of Konrad Lorenz but above all of Steiner, Francesco Voltolina's work stretches upwards a silk thread emerging from a print on fabric ("the line traced by the silk thread corresponds to the light that the silkworm weaves in the thread and that contributes to the transformative process") and at the same time, again Voltolina, sets up on the wall precious micro constellations of bronze heads of dying bees. While Rachel Morellet's "Offering" places goat dung and gold coins together in a cup, in an archaic and religious way. It happens that the evanescent and meticulous drawing of the tree species present in a precise urban neighbourhood, reproduced in the form of a map, constitutes Sebastiano Guerrera's subtle investigation to which Franca Mancinelli's poetic text is added.

A vision of the nature-culture relationship translates into a micro-installation Philippe Terrier-Hermann's beetle-rhinoceros "Oryctes nasicornis Linnaeus", the world's strongest animal widespread in the Mediterranean area, which dialogues with a ceramic tile with a folkloric flavour. It also happens that Antonino Bove is paradoxically on the subject, in that the all-brain man in his photographic research fully identifies, in order to object to what Linnaeus, on the other hand, had placed from the outset among primates, man as Anthropomorpha. While Anna Guillot refers to the “Masters”, from whom she inherits experience wisdom and respect for the world and the human. There are other visions: the conceptual one of openness and commitment, with an anthropological matrix, by Stefania Galegati and also, to varying degrees and in different ways, by Michel Couturier; those between irony and apparent disengagement by Marta Ferro and Diego Miguel Mirabella. […]