Let Chianti Sculpture Park re-capture that holiday mood

My writings on Gianpietro Carlesso caused me to ‘come up in conversation’ the other day while Chris Bright was chatting fellow American and Milan based Sean Carlos, and, as a result of Sean’s recent email, I’ve been darting around the web looking at sculpture related things. There is some interesting stuff out there, and some future posts will be dedicated to them, and, in turn, I hope, help the lives of struggling artists become, well, less of a struggle. High hopes indeed, I know.

As I was saying, I’ve been wending my way around the web and I came across the Chianti Sculpture Park, which looks rather interesting to this blogging English teacher cum photographer, and may well be of interest to others, who are not necessarily blogging English teacher etcs like me. Then again, you never know.

This project was created by contemporary Italian sculptor, one Piero Giadrossi and his wife on an area of woodland they acquired in Chianti, Tuscany and it’s only about 7 miles from one of the other Tuscan jewels, Siena. There are quite a number of international artists displaying their works there too, as you will see if you click here.

The Chianti Sculpture Park website, which is in Italian, English, French and German is very good, and there is a virtual tour of the park, here. If you click on the little pictures you’ll see photos of the sculptures. Personally, being the aspiring photographer that I try to be, I’d love to have a look round. There are some stunning images to be captured there, of that I’m pretty sure.

Should you feel the urge to vist, an entrance ticket will cost you €7.50, or €5.00 for the under 16s. Although the park is open to the public from 10am until sunset from April to October, it is also possible the visit between November and March if you call this number first 0577-357151. It would be quite an experience on a crisp clear winter day, I’m sure. And don’t forget that camera!

In any event, if you holiday in Tuscany is proving to be a hectic hare about session, stopping off here may well help regenerate that holiday mood. Try it, and let me know how you get on. It would also be a nice stop off for a corporate entertainment itinerary too.

You might even find me there one day – along with my camera!