Woodland is the theme of the 2022 staging for the Turin Boys' Theater designed for guests attending the Nitto ATP Finals 2022 tennis tournament

In Turin, at the Pala Alpitour, the Nitto ATP Finals 2022 men's tennis tournament takes place from 13 to 20 November.

To welcome international guests the Teatro dei Ragazzi (Children's Theater), a fascinating industrial structure born as an electrical substation in the 1930s, today a theater production center for childhood and youth, which, for the occasion, is set up, among works of art and pieces of design, on the theme of nature, understood as everything that pre-exists to the work of man on Earth.

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Woodland

Curated by Giorgio Galotti and Claudia Pignatale from the design gallery secondome and Giorgio Galotti, Woodland is an exhibition project involving various creatives - Francesco Arena, Serena Confalonieri, Vittorio Corsini, Gaia De Megni, Henrik Håkansson, Mandalaki, Marco Pettinari, Yves Scherer, Patrick Tuttofuoco - designed for LEA - Lead Exclusive Area, the hospitality format of the FIT - Italian Tennis Federation, designed to welcome the international guests of the ATP, of Sport and Health and of the Italian Tennis Federation.

The concept of the display

Nature, as we know it, is understood as an environment whose original balance cannot be altered without considering an evolution of the living species that populate it. Hence the expression of "natural balance", a sort of balance between human intervention, who inhabits it, and the biological course of the other species on the Planet.

Back to nature

The intention of the project lies in the desire to offer the visitor the experience of a "return to nature", activating a reflection on it in an attempt to affirm the need to get rid of the effects of civilization, to regain possession of a condition of harmonious life regulated by instinct.

An alienating sense between fiction and reality

In the foyer of the theater, the sculpture Boy by Yves Scherer, a child playing with a butterfly placed on his face, is revealed as a link between exterior and interior, where the environmental installation Volée, conceived by Serena Confalonieri, defines a wall intervention in which elements in Pelma polyurethane foam enter into symbiosis with flowers and stabilized feathers, defining an area in which vegetation is transformed into a static and eternal element to take possession of the architecture that hosts it and activate an alienating sense between fiction and reality.

A bronze swing amidst futuristic vegetation

In the lounge, the green installation Meta-Nature by Mandalaki stands out with a futuristic atmosphere, emphasized by the artificial light of light inspired by the colors of nature. Poetic and graceful, a sculptural and at the same time dynamic work by Francesco Arena is grafted into this fairytale context: a bronze swing on which the tribute to Anna Karenina is engraved by Tolstoj: All the present days are similar, each past day is different in its own way. Various sofas and armchairs by Moroso complete the layout of the lounge.

The intrinsic power of nature

The path is completed by reaching the hall of the large theater, where the immense environmental installation Spacetime by Patrick Tuttofuoco allows you to make permanent visual contact with a neon lightning white that hurls itself on the earthy soil, expanding the time of action to the point of crystallizing it to tell the intrinsic power, sometimes hidden, of nature.

Inserting itself in the frame of the theatrical curtain, the work increases its suggestive range, in a dimension between the dreamlike, the real and the surreal.