Artistic research feeds on tradition; it is an individual journey that is striving to be and can only be collective, the incessant rediscovery and transformation of millenary vestiges settled in memory, in the continuity proper to natural movement.

Holy Wood is a center committed to experimenting in art and researching art: here we work on all the aspects involved in the making of art, so as to gain a deeper understanding of art, from a technical–experssive viewpoint and from the standpoint of its relationship to anthropology and myth.

The programmatic aim the founders of Holy Wood have set out is to scope the artistic research carried on internationally, as well as the extant cultural traditions of different peoples and the individual reworking of these traditions into personal expressive languages, and to bring all such material together under shared projects, alternating moments of study and elaboration with moments of exchange and feedback open to all. In brief: tradition, research, and divulgence.

To get this project of expression off the ground we needed the facilities with which to host the research activities planned as well as the artistic events, the concerts, the exhibitions, and the outdoor initiatives. So we renovated a farmhouse set in the midst of woods and hills and recovered the spaces inside to create a recording studio, a media library and exhibition hall, and a projection and meeting room.

We want to be ancient: we understand art as an instrument of knowledge and existential experience, as something you cannot forsake if you are to explore the roots of your being in the world.

The foundational idea behind Holy Wood is that a network of relationships and bonds should be in place through which anyone anywhere in the world who’s got ideas and is committed to finding new forms of expression (and exploring new kinds of relationship) in the language of arts can do so, in a setting that provides a concrete opportunity to experiment.

If you want to be a part of this idea and collaborate, helping toward its growth, we’ll be happy to meet you.