"La Rocca" Wind Park — Pontinvrea (SV), Italy
The project
Four works, four visions, four stories carried by the wind — each exploring its power as a transformative force and a bridge between environment, myth, and community.
The Museo del Vento invites you to wander slowly through the Ligurian hinterland, discovering the landscape with fresh eyes.
It’s a journey that weaves together reality and imagination, nature and human ingenuity, where the wind becomes more than mere energy — it becomes a narrative, time, and change.
Directions
From Savona, to reach Giovo Ligure, take the SS29 and follow the signs toward Pontinvrea. From Giovo, continue uphill along the provincial road.
Follow the signs, and in about 20 minutes, you’ll arrive at the La Rocca Wind Park.
The idea
The “Museo del Vento” is a permanent artistic project set among the blades of the “La Rocca “wind farm, located in the municipality of Pontinvrea (SV), in the hinterland of Val Bormida.
Here, the energy of the wind converges with contemporary art: each wind turbine base becomes a site-specific painting, created by artists who were invited to engage with the landscape, the monumental scale of the turbines, and the natural and cultural context that surrounds them.
This is not a conventional museum. It is an open, accessible space — woven into the territory and constantly evolving. A place where art becomes a lens through which to interpret the landscape, a catalyst for environmental reflection, and a proposal for a new aesthetic of energy.
The route unfolds in the open air, winding along paths that connect the turbines, guided by the rhythm of the wind and its ever-changing nature.
It is a museum to be explored on foot, where the invisible — wind, time, transformation—takes shape through artistic expression.
The “Museo del Vento” was created as an initiative of the Entroterraneo Festival 2025, organized by the local association Echollective, with the aim to transform the “La Rocca” wind farm into a contemporary art museum. The festival, held in Giovo Ligure in the heart of Val Bormida, combines nature, art, and experimentation, offering concerts, performances, installations, and workshops. The first edition welcomed over 1,000 participants, standing out for its immersive atmosphere, sustainability, and strong connection to the territory.
Fabrizio Assandri from TGR Liguria talks about the "Museo del Vento"
The artists and their works
SIMBIOSI
This first work is an invitation.
An invitation to look closely, to seek what seems hidden, to momentarily set aside the familiar gaze.
It is the threshold of an intimate world—unexpected, from what one might expect. With this first piece, you enter the Museo del Vento: an open-air museum where landscape and imagination intertwine.
Here, time is neither past nor future—it is the time of childhood, of memories as sweet as cotton candy, of hills seen through eyes still capable of wonder. This mural, with its expressionistic tones, invites you to step into that timeless realm, where every element—flowers, houses, clouds, animals, wind turbines—vibrates in harmony. The sky binds day and night like a dream that remains vivid.
The work draws inspiration from the mountains of Pontinvrea, seen through the eyes of someone who grew up among them: not as a postcard, but as a lived-in landscape, where every detail speaks a familiar language.
It is a tangible, real environment, yet also a gateway to an imaginary elsewhere, where nature is not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing presence.
DAMIANO BASSI
Mioglia – Born and raised in the Ligurian hinterland, Damiano’s art is deeply rooted in the memories and elements of his past — nature, freedom, and lightness — all of which remain enduring sources of connection and inspiration.
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This wind turbine seems to be made of rock. The boundary between structure and painting dissolves, as if the entire form has emerged from a wall eroded by time and wind. There is no separation — only a process: the slow and constant work of nature as it changes shape.
The figures depicted by the artist are inspired by rocks sculpted by natural forces, especially the wind — an invisible yet powerful presence that carves, smooths, and shapes. It is among the most impactful elements in the landscape, and yet one of the most difficult to portray.
Here, it is evoked not in its presence, but in the traces it leaves behind.
One such wind, the Favonio, crosses the Alps and descends into Liguria. It connects two souls of the region: the hinterland and the coast. Its influence is both physical and symbolic — it connects, traverses, rearranges.
It reminds us that the hinterland is not a periphery, but a living part of Liguria. When it blows, it brings warm, dry air, sweeping away the maccaja — the dense, humid wind that rises from the sea. It is the moment when the hinterland asserts itself. A force of transformation, like geological time that shapes mountains and valleys, or like climate change which accelerates those shifts.
This work invites you to pause and observe the landscape. To notice the rocks, the ridges, the smoothed forms, the direction of the wind. To experience the place as a living, ever-changing environment, sculpted by time and air.
MONOGRAFF
Firenze – Monograff’s work reflects a deep commitment to exploring the points of convergence and divergence between the natural world and the urban landscape, between plant life and architectural form.
Utopian Ligurian Jungle
The wind that blows across Pontinvrea is more than a natural phenomenon: it is memory, breath, narration. In this mural, Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds, is a central, mythical figure: his breath generates streams of energy that spread across the land, like invisible threads connecting sky, earth, and sea. It is a visual story intertwining myth and territorial identity, where the profile of the village merges with a flower-shaped wind turbine, a symbol of the synthesis between Nature and human ingenuity.
All of this unfolds in a surreal, vibrant vision that conveys freshness, movement, and progress. In mythology, Aeolus grants Ulysses the power to command the winds, a gift both powerful and fragile. Yet human error, the opening of the bag, unleashes the storm.
But it is not only ancient Greece that speaks through the wind. Here, among the Ligurian hills, legends also whisper of a breath that changed human destiny.
On the hill next to this wind farm once stood Castel Delfino. According to legend, the young countess Giovanna was forced to marry Marquis Ugone del Carretto, though her heart belonged to Neldo, a minstrel. When Ugone discovered their love, he killed Neldo in a jealous rage. In that moment, a sudden, violent wind rose — tearing through the castle and sweeping everything away. Giovanna’s body disappeared: it is said that the wind carried her to the sky, to be reunited with her beloved. What the wind gives in one story, it takes away in another.
This work captures it all: the wind’s strength and fragility, its power to unite what seems distant — nature and technology, myth and memory, sorrow and renewal.
And it reminds us that every breath of air carries a story, and every story can become energy, if we know how to listen.
HAZKJ
Bologna – Hazkj’s artworks have the intention to create a union between his distinctive style and the cultural heritage that endures today.
Through this fusion, aesthetically revitalizing themes and symbols establish a dialogue that transcends the dimension of time.
EFFLUVIO
The journey through the Museo del Vento is nearing its end. After tracing the wind’s path through myth, landscape, and memory, you — as observers — have woven your own thread of connection to this land, one shaped by attention and wonder. This final work marks the end of the journey, yet it also opens a door to a more dreamlike, ethereal dimension.
This artwork spirals around the wind turbine like a spontaneous growth: an intertwining of nature and imagination that transforms technology into a living organism.
Climbing vegetation — both native and exotic — gradually envelop the structure, turning it into something entirely new. No longer a mechanical object, but a creature suspended between the natural and the fantastical, as if the turbine itself had become a small, curious being. Hidden among the branches and leaves are silent presences — not inanimate structures, but enigmatic, perhaps amused creatures, quietly observing the visitor.
The forest that surrounds the work is dense, but not closed. It leaves openings of light and space, gently inviting those who know how to observe to step inside — to lose themselves in an environment where nature and the man-made are not in conflict, but in dialogue, blending into one another. Here, the elements ask only to be heard, they speak of growth, of transformation, and of endurance, guiding us toward a deeper, more attuned awareness.
MR FIJODOR
Imperia – A leading figure in Italian muralism, Mr Fijodor is known for his socially and ecologically charged works. His art is delivered free from technical complexity in favour of a spontaneous and direct style.
