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I make environmental interventions in relation to the landscape, often grafting them onto pre-existing architectural or natural forms, which I identify as geo-foundations. I am interested in the idea of sculpture as construction of the environment: a habitat in motion where being and their architecture are nomadic. For this reason, in my self-supporting structures, form and energy are closely intertwined.
Emanuele Marullo (Catania, Italy, 1989) lives in Turin, where he is a co-founder and active member of the Bastione collective, dedicated to promoting events in the fields of art, music, and performance. He studied at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, completing his education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France. For several years, Marullo has been developing an environmental art pathway that leads him to explore natural locations where he experiments with connections and intentions. He has participated in various exhibitions and artistic residencies, including: Dolo, promoted by Home-Network at the Corte delle Dolomiti, Belluno (IT, 2023); Tell_us, promoted by Messy Lab with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo at Torri Superiore, Ventimiglia (IT, 2021); 1+1. 0 and Se non tocchi non cade at Villa Rey, Turin (IT, 2021); Land Land Land, promoted by the Bastione collective in collaboration with the Museo della Ceramica di Mondovì (IT, 2019); Circulart at Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT, 2019); Monza Biennale (IT, 2019); Focare at Villa Littorio in the Cilento Park, Laurino (IT, 2018); Les pommes des hommes at Associazione Barriera, Turin (IT, 2018); and Biennal d’Art Contemporain, Mulhouse (FR, 2017).
Poggiorsini is a hillside municipality of ancient origins, with 1,290 inhabitants.
Set in a picturesque landscape, it offers visitors the chance to enjoy the unique Murgia landscape and to taste simple and genuine local products. In the 17th century, it became part of the Orsini family's property. They transformed the small rural village into a true urban centre, giving rise to the town's name. It was ruled by this family until the abolition of feudalism, decreed by Napoleonic laws in the early 19th century, and it was later annexed to Gravina in Puglia, becoming administratively independent in 1957. Its notable monuments include the new parish church of Maria Santissima Addolorata, erected after the earthquake in the 1930s, which caused serious damage to the previous church which had been built in the 18th century and was dedicated to “Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori” (Holy Mary of the Seven Sorrows). Places of interest include the old village, which developed around the Orsini farmhouse and, around the town, the various masserie (farmsteads), focal points in the ancient farming civilisation. The countryside around Poggiorsini has many olive groves, vineyards and vast fields for cereal crops; the wild flora includes more than 50 species of orchids.