Invisible Forest

Favéro spends his days among nature, drawing trees and rocks to recharge his batteries. Fifty of his drawings, made in France, were exhibited at a space dubbed the Tree Clinic. The artist also presented the design for a sculpture—Invisible Forest—, a ritualistic plantation in which he pays homage to South-America’s original, but sadly long-lost forest cover. The project unfolds in harmony with the living trees on the Matarazzo patio which have miraculously survived in the midst of the metropolis. The artist’s idea was to transform this space into a ghost forest by erecting diaphanous tree trunks out of chicken wire. Inside these trunks, sitting directly on the ground, Favéro placed some symbolic objects, such as a skull, a stone, a crystal, a branch or an antler, the seeds or souls that feed this magical forest. As they grow toward our gaze, these eerie trees establish a sky-earth connection with the forest, which is given here the transitory character of an evoked invisibility. Physical, mental and spiritual light irrigates life by infusing the work with an uncommon energy, which the artist endeavours to transmit and share.