Aradeo 13.05.17_072 taphrina deformans garden project, 2017 Michele Guido.

50x37,5cm ed. 1+ 1ap

Taphrina deformans is a fungus that attacks peach leaves and changes their shape. If through phototropism - the phenomenon of orientation of organisms, or part of them, towards a light source - the leaves are subjected to a metamorphic process that changes their shape, shaping it by the impulse of light - in the same way, photography generates impressions capable of evoking the volumetric surfaces of what it captures. In this sense, phototropism and photography are closely related: the peach leaf shaped by the light takes on a volumetric and plastic consistency in continuity with the imposition of the light itself.

In 1997 Michele Guido moved to Milan to study at the AABB in Brera; as he was training, in 1999 he was selected for a residence / study at the T.A.M. directed by Eliseo Mattiacci. From 2001 to 2007, he had a studio at the Casa degli Artisti in Milan, where he worked with De Sanna and Nagasawa: “Open Discussion: the Concept of MA”, which in the oriental world indicates a passage, an interval of space-time. Hence the section of the plant elements, the layering of the design to derive the modular element that belongs to the genetic system of plants.

The multidisciplinary investigations are developed with more complex projects called "garden projects" based on the formal analogies between the plant world and scientific research, the geographical origin of plants, their relationship with the culture of those places, biodiversity, antispecism and the cycles related to the seed-plant-fruit-seed in collaboration with the seed banks.