Garden by Daniel Spoerri

Created starting in the 1990s by the Swiss-born artist Daniel Spoerri, this park is located on the outskirts of Seggiano, on Monte Amiata, in the southern territories of Tuscany.

The park extends for about 16 hectares between the municipality of Seggiano and the hamlet of Pescina. Daniel Spoerri’s Garden hosts 112 works created by different artists.

The history of the garden

The garden has been open to the public since 1997 and is managed by the “Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri – Hic Terminus Haeret” Foundation. Daniel Spoerri, before arriving in Seggiano, lived in New York, Simi, Düsseldorf and Paris, arrived on Amiata in the early 90s and began to give life to this wonderful place, a park-museum.

The garden

Daniel Spoerri’s Garden extends over 16 hectares among large green gardens and woods, a sort of enchanted place animated by 112 visionary works by various artists from all over the world. In addition to the sculptural itinerary, there is an alternative botanical one with numerous species identified with specific panels that describe their typology and peculiarities.
The path of the sculptures leads to the discovery of all the installations created in the park.

Those made by Daniel Spoerri :

Bibendum, column of re-nascument, marble table, Unicorns/Navel of the world, idol, entry prohibited without slippers, eternal breakfast, eternal lunch, the meat grinder dripper, the cup, the jugglers, the jurors, the dummies, warriors of night, jingle-the-elephant, tree of skulls, bouquet of flowers, beauty and the beast, the devil and the unchaste woman, Holy schnapps, the werewolf, chapel of skulls, the poet’s tomb, the aviary of sleeping birds, the greenhouse of electric flowers, the cockerel and the irreligious mantis, grass sofa, labyrinthine walled path, the voyeur, room n.13 of the Hotel Carcasonne Rue Mouffetard 24 Paris, trullo oven smoking heads, the mass grave of the clones, the pyramid of the woman on the knotted stick, eight skinny nightmares, the Bersagliere, pile of horseshoes and chains, the garden of urns, white?black?, corridor of Damocles, duodecim ultimae cenae de claris mulieribus, the little bridge of the gorilla, tarot, the ghost, the acrobatic frogs, the funeral of the tableau-piège and Buddha of the tree.

Sculptures by other artists:

Eva Aeppli : some human weaknesses, the other side, erinyes, the planets, the zodiac, nine astrological aspects, othello and desdemona
Arman: sedentary monument
Till Augustin : the Gordian knot
Ay-o : banzai, banzai, banzai
Roberto Barni : continue
Giampaolo di Cocco: Trvial/catalina III, Ars Moriendi
Erik Dietman : les nains diaboliques protégent les soliviers et dadanier
Ugo Dossi: the kiss
Katharina Duwen : Wastes from the Bronze Age
Olivier Estoppey : dies irae
Karl Gerstner: Plato’s forest
Luciano Ghersi: the meeting place of the fakirs
Alfonso Hüppi: the lovers’ tower, the pissing shower
Dani Karavan: Adam and Eve
Jürgen Knubben: two steel lenses, a leaning tower and five geodes
Zoltan Ludwig Kruse: the three thrones
Juliane Kühn: crushed garden gnome
Nam June Paik : “make something big like the Eiffel Tower”
Bernhard Luginbühl: Farmer’s Monument
Ursi Luginbühl : the guardian of the threshold
Luigi Mainolfi: fertile land
Luciano Massari: island within an island
Aldo Mondino : great arabesque
Birgit Neumann: ponytail
Josef Maria Odermatt : untitled
Meret Oppenheim : hermes fountain
Graziano Pompili: man lives poetically
Josef Pleier : sunstone
Bernhard Pras : woman and child inventory
Giovanni Rizzoli: pleasure pain (ecstasy)
Rosa Roedelius : the cake dream
Dieter Roth: ringing fax
Susanne Runge: escalator-immobile bench
Kimitake Sato: origami-style zura mask
Uwe Schloen : bunker village
Pavel Schmidt: don’t open before the train stops, water majm easser l’eau eater voda nero agua
Nora Schöpfer: space-time
Martin Schwarz: little Switzerland
Esther Seidel: the visitor, the seer
Carolein Smit: Magdalene’s cave
Jesùs-Rafael Soto: penetrable sound
Mauro Staccioli : flying buttress
Paul Talman : Cathedral No.6
Andrè Thomkins: 21 Palindromes
Jean Tinguely: large chandelier for D.S., Othello and Desdemona
Roland Topor: the seamstress reader, mountain mother
Not Vital : Daniel Nijinski Superstar
Paul Wiedmer : dragon
Erwin Eurm : doppelhose