Festival des Jardins de la Côte d'Azur Returns with Artist-Inspired Gardens

The third edition of the Festival des Jardins de la Côte d'Azur runs from April 3 to 28, 2021, under the theme 'Giardini d'artista' (Artist Gardens). Organized by the Department of Alpes-Maritimes since 2017, the biennial event showcases 28 artistic gardens across six locations: Antibes, Cannes, Grasse, Menton, Nice, and Monaco (a first-time participant). Among these, 17 landscape creations compete, while 11 ephemeral gardens are hors concours. Three Italian projects are finalists, inspired by literary and art historical masterpieces. In Nice, 'Where the plants tell the tales' by Vincenzo Nardi and Andrea Russo at Jardin Albert 1er draws from Boccaccio's Decameron, using ten circular borders and copper spirals to symbolize the ten storytellers and their words. In Antibes, 'Danseuse plastique' by Nerantzia Tzortzi and Julia Georgi at Pineta Gould reinterprets Henri Matisse's collage Le Danseur, incorporating Mediterranean elements like reeds, plastics, and broken vessels to evoke beauty, memory, and oblivion. Also in Nice, 'Le labyrinthe des muses' by Daniela Donisi at a public park features a mosaic-like labyrinth representing the nine Muses, with sensory experiences and plants including Sedum, citrus, ornamental grasses, and 130 Polyanthum jasminum, evoking the Garden of the Hesperides.