{"id":5484,"date":"2025-07-28T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/evento\/caput-mundi-mall-vatican-city-installation-of-the-disaster-tree-by-stefano-bressani\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:54:59","slug":"caput-mundi-mall-vatican-city-installation-of-the-disaster-tree-by-stefano-bressani","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/en\/evento\/caput-mundi-mall-vatican-city-installation-of-the-disaster-tree-by-stefano-bressani\/","title":{"rendered":"Caput Mundi Mall, Vatican City: installation of \u201cThe Disaster Tree\u201d by Stefano Bressani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The art of redemption: Stefano Bressani\u2019s \u201cDisaster Tree\u201d lights up luxury at the gates of the Vatican ahead of the 2025 Jubilee<\/h2>\n<p>In the vibrant heart of Rome, alive with anticipation for the 2025 Jubilee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stefanobressani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefano Bressani<\/a> \u2014 the \u201cTailor of Art\u201d \u2014 shapes an aesthetic language that overturns matter and memory, giving new life to what has been discarded. Just steps away from St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, inside the newly inaugurated Caput Mundi Mall in Vatican City, the artist from Pavia unveils one of his most emblematic creations: <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/progetti\/\">Disaster Tree<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More than a work to admire, it is a powerful metaphor of resistance and rebirth \u2014 a fabric tree blooming at the heart of luxury, urging reflection on time, nature, and the value of beauty as a form of redemption.<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_video-05d1728e7cdca5b67cfeabe5c0a333b6\">\n.avia-video.av-av_video-05d1728e7cdca5b67cfeabe5c0a333b6{\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-Q.jpg);\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-video av-av_video-05d1728e7cdca5b67cfeabe5c0a333b6 avia-video-16-9 av-preview-image avia-video-confirm_all av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/IAaoriQ8AQA'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UWKV5541\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IAaoriQ8AQA?feature=oembed&autoplay=1&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h3>Art as counter-narrative: between consumption, sacredness, and regeneration<\/h3>\n<p>Amid the renewed commercial landscape of Rome \u2014 where fashion, technology, and food converge in the shadow of Michelangelo\u2019s dome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bressani poses an essential question: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>what place can art occupy in a world ruled by speed and the ephemeral?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His answer takes form in Disaster Tree, a monumental installation that both inhabits and ennobles the space of Caput Mundi Mall \u2014 a symbol of a city preparing to welcome over 35 million pilgrims and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>With his signature sartorial mastery, Bressani transforms textile waste into seeds of rebirth: fabric, an element of fragile impermanence, becomes witness to an artistic and ideological metamorphosis. The work stages the tension between nature and artificial construction, between organic verticality and urban rigidity \u2014 yet it is in its \u201cleaves,\u201d made of discarded cloth fragments, that the poetic essence resides.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3636\" src=\"https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O.jpg\" alt=\"Vatican City\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stefanobressani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-ROMA-CAPUT-MUNDI-FOTO-O-705x529.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disaster Tree <\/strong>thus becomes a reflection on the ecology of beauty \u2014 an ethical and aesthetic act that invites us to slow down and stay, in opposition to the intoxication of consumption.<br \/> In dialogue with other contemporary masters on display in the mall \u2014 from Andy Warhol to Ernesto Lamagna \u2014 Bressani restores art to its original function: to awaken awareness as well as wonder. <\/p>\n<h3>An artwork in harmony with the Jubilee\u2019s spirit<\/h3>\n<p>In the spiritual and symbolic context of the upcoming Jubilee \u2014 a time of forgiveness and renewal \u2014 Disaster Tree embodies a secular yet universal message: even what has been cast aside can speak again, bloom again, and be loved again. 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