IGreen

From March 14 to 28, 2026, the Museo del Fiume in Nazzano hosts IGREEN, an international exhibition project promoted by BLU Spazio delle Arti, under the patronage of the Comune di Nazzano, and curated by Barbara Pavan. The exhibition brings together seventeen artists whose works explore the semantic, symbolic, and political complexity of green in contemporary culture.

The exhibition features works by Luciana Aironi, Brigitte Amarger, Gudrun Bartenberger, Silvia Beccaria, Silvia Bellu, Lindiwe Bhebe, Susanna Cati, Norberto Cenci, Magdalena Fermina, Monica Giovinazzi, Rolands Krutovs, Naomi Middelmann, Karola Pezarro, Sonia Izn Piscicelli, Liliana Rothschild, Lalla Thord and Francesca Torchia.

Now pervasive in public, political, and economic discourse, the term green has become a symbol of sustainability. At the same time, however, it has evolved into an ambiguous notion, frequently subject to rhetorical simplifications, instrumental appropriation, and gradual semantic dilution. While its widespread use has increased its visibility, it has also destabilized its conceptual and critical boundaries. Within this framework, IGREEN reopens the question of what “green” means today through contemporary artistic research and practice. What images, memories, and emotions does this paradigmatic color evoke? Which dimensions of experience does it resonate with? What models of relationship between human beings and the environment does it reveal - or, conversely, obscure - within current narratives of sustainability? And what contradictions emerge behind the rhetoric of green as a promise of balance?
In this context, green is approached not only as a chromatic category or symbolic sign, but also as a space of dialogue between ecology and artifice, between imaginaries of regeneration and dynamics of consumption, between nature and cultural construction. The exhibition investigates the multiple meanings that green assumes in the present, as well as the forms of harmony and dissonance that structure the relationship between humans, matter, and the ongoing transformations of the planet.

Through a variety of visual languages - from contemporary textile practices to installation, sculpture, and hybrid interdisciplinary approaches - IGREEN invites a plurality of aesthetic, ethical, and political reflections. The works on display engage with practices grounded in the conscious use of materials and resources, processes of recovery and upcycling, and methodologies capable of fostering a concrete dialogue with audiences and the surrounding territory.

Promoted by BLU Spazio delle Arti, an independent cultural space founded in Rome in 2023 by RAABE APS, the exhibition represents the second chapter of a broader project exploring the chromatic dimensions of our planet. Rooted in a vision of art as a tool for awareness, regeneration, and social transformation, BLU Spazio delle Arti supports artistic practices that intertwine aesthetic research, environmental responsibility, and cultural participation.

Within this framework, upcycling plays a central role - not merely as a technique but as a critical and political stance capable of transforming discarded materials into new symbolic and aesthetic possibilities. Art thus becomes a means of research and connection between culture, environment, and community, capable of generating new forms of awareness and imagining alternative ways of inhabiting the world.