The large, colourful outline is what Katja Novitskova defines a “photographic sculptural object”, a hybrid of technology and reality, virtuality and biology. It was designed to be part of the Park's cultivated landscape, among its works of art. In nature, the artist explains, a chameleon - like other animals - is an extraordinary “living feeling machine”, “infinitely more intricate than a drone or a robot”. Chameleon Through The Looking-Glass (2022) is part of the project titled Approximation, which started in 2010 as a response to the new visual culture which arose with the dawn of smartphones and tablets and mass economy based on likes and views. Novitskova uses sophisticated algorithms generating new images by means of a process that develops from jpgs circulating on the web. With her sculptures, the artist wishes to channel the attention and sympathy stimulated by images of animals online, and bring out empathy towards a world inhabited by us and other creatures.

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s Art Park is a park on the hill of San Licerio which hosts permanent large sculptures. Located in the municipality of Guarene in the Piedmont region, the park lies on a hillside overlooking woods, fields and fortresses. It is a place of extraordinary beauty belonging to the winemaking landscapes of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato areas, which are Unesco World Heritage sites. The Park expands the activities of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which was instituted in 1995 and is dedicated to contemporary art, in an outdoor context. The Fondazione opened its first headquarters in the halls of the Seventeenth-Century Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene in 1997.

The Park is a meeting place, and a space for a balanced dialogue between nature and the works of contemporary artists from all over the world, installed alongside rows of Nebbiolo vines, among willows, cypresses and oaks. The Park was designed by landscape architects Lorenzo Rebediani and Vera Scaccabarozzi, and was inspired by the mosaic of “tiles” composed by the fields, hazelnut groves and vineyards surrounding it.

The Art Park is open to the public and accessible by walking along a promenade, which was designed to offer visitors a variety of paths and views on the artworks and the surrounding nature. Some of the installations were commissioned by the Fondazione specifically for the Park, while others have found a new, harmonious host, in the Art Park.

The Park is an open-air museum, guided by a principle of full accessibility for everyone.

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