The Less than Zero art exhibition, currently running at the Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio winery in Umbria, features three highly innovative artists who use only renewable or recycled materials. The works on display in the cellars and grounds of the wine farm include salt lamps by 22 year-old Samuel Fortunato, delicate scrap iron sculptures by Andrea Cereda and creations in living lawn by Vittorio Como, including his grass picture in a baroque frame and his Green Chair, where visitors can stretch out on a grass-covered couch, enveloped in an aroma-therapy mist spray. The exhibition also includes a series of studies by photographer Stefano Cattelan on conservation themes.
The farm, which also produces top quality olive oil, offers free Eco-Tours of its vineyards in non-polluting electric vehicles, as well as wine and olive oil tastings in its Green Wine Bar, where the bar counter, tables and chairs are all made from recycled wood.
Over the last ten years, the Fasola Bologna family, wine producers for several generations, have been converting their company into a totally green operation, powered by solar panels and using electric cars, biodiesel-fuelled tractors and organic fertilizers, and are proud of the fact that they are the first to be granted zero-greenhouse emission certification.
Eco-Tours at Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio, Mercatello di Marsciano, near Marciano (Perugia) are available every day, prior to advance booking.
Tel. ++39.075/8783386 or tour@montevibiano.it For more information: www.montevibiano.it
