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★The author who won the Science Book Award 2017 with Erba volant, Renato Bruni's new great work!
★Mirabilia sets out to discovery concerns the amazing world of plants revealed in the works of Dürer, Degas, Hokusai, Rivera, Duchamp, Warhol, Banksy and many others.
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In art exhibition, like a book, is perhaps the best way to be carried away to an unexplored and new place, to take a step towards major and minor answers and to feel a better person. An exhibition brings together all the paths that it can open up in the visitor’s mind and, if done well, is not limited only to passive enjoyment which allows saying “I saw Van Gogh’s sunflowers” but “looking at Van Gogh’s sunflowers, I discovered something new.” In Mirabilia this discovery concerns the amazing world of plants revealed in the works of Dürer, Degas, Hokusai, Rivera, Duchamp, Warhol, Banksy and many others, from ecological dynamics to archeobotany, from the flavour of tomatoes to vertical farms and the revolutionary frontiers of research.

Renato Bruni is Associate professor in Botany/Pharmaceutical Biology in the Department of Food Science at the University of Parma. In the laboratory, he works on the secondary metabolites of plants and their uses, while on the web he is the author of the blog Erba Volant , writing about how studying plants and their effects is harder than thought. This is also why the better he gets to know plants the more he is convinced that they are complicated creatures. He has published several books:
Erba Volant (2015) won the Science Book Award 2017
Science in the Garden (2017)
Mirabilia. When Art Conceals Botany (2018)