Giovanni Stefano Ghidini. 52 Ludlow

The project room of Fondazione ICA Milano hosts for the first time three works from the "52 Ludlow" series by Giovanni Stefano Ghidini (1957, Urago d’Oglio, Italy), part of a broader project developed by the artist over a span of twenty-five years. This group of works conveys the essence of a research practice that intertwines nature, sculpture, and photography, originating in 1997 on the rooftop of a building in New York’s Lower East Side, where Ghidini cultivated and transformed sunflowers into monumental, anthropomorphic presences. Through a ritual of care, waiting, and transformation, the flowers become a metaphor for life, its cyclicality, and its impermanence.