{"id":34979,"date":"2026-05-20T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orticolario.it\/intervista-a-daniele-mongera\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:20:17","slug":"intervista-a-daniele-mongera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.orticolario.it\/en\/intervista-a-daniele-mongera\/","title":{"rendered":"Intervista a Daniele Mongera"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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How did your story begin?
<\/strong>Propagating the garden plants first, and then looking for a place to replant them, are the activities at the origin of my story with gardens, or at least of its first chapter. These are the years from childhood to adolescence, spent largely observing people at work with plants: caring for them, talking about them, and exchanging them. The real beginning, however, dates back to my university years, when I discovered that creating a garden was an art in its own right, and that an interest in it\u2014whether natural or intellectual\u2014could find expression as a profession as well.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Who are the people who have most inspired you artistically and professionally? <\/span><\/b>
A primary source of inspiration, for the breadth and acuity of its perspective as well as for its extraordinary linguistic structure,is the work of Professor Ippolito Pizzetti, whose lectures at the University of Venice Faculty of Architecture were only the captivating prelude to reading his essays and the publications he edited. This cultural framework later made it possible to discover authors such as Hermann von P\u00fcckler-Muskau and the great English landscape designers, as well as the leading figures of the Anglo-Saxon garden movement.A significant source of inspiration also comes from the work of painters such as Luciano Ventrone, from individual paintings such as Paesaggio di Monte Calvello by Balthus, from the work of photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, and from artists such as Bruno Munari. <\/span> Finally, the architect Carlo Scarpa has also been a great source of inspiration. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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How does nature inspire your projects and lifestyle? <\/span><\/b>
<\/span>Nature suggests both compositional and formal principles: sequences of colors, combinations, and design. At the same time, however, it is also a boundary to overcome. Work, as well as lifestyle, more often represents a remembrance of nature rather than an imitation of it or the expression of its direct influence. <\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>

How do you imagine your \u201cmental landscape\u201d when you create? Are there any real or imagined places that guide you? <\/span><\/b>
<\/span>The mental landscape derives as much from the three-dimensional landscape as from the vibration it emanates. For me, it is always the physical\u2014or perhaps metaphysical\u2014place that gives rise to the landscape and its possible expressions, guiding its transformation. The landscape therefore originates from a precise yet indefinable point, with which it seeks to resonate, generating forms that are compatible and, as far as possible, unique and original. <\/span><\/p>

Is there a recurring dream – or idea – that keeps returning in your work? <\/span><\/b>
The idea that the plants in a garden settle upon it, envelop it, or suspend it as if they were a cloud is certainly a recurring theme in my work.
Like a dream, a garden should dissolve and recompose space, preventing its immediate reading and comprehension, and thereby allowing its appearance to reflect the gaze and sensibility of the observer in ways that are not predetermined.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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If your way of designing were a dream, what kind of scenario would it be? Lucid, epic, silent, or collective? <\/span><\/b>
An epic and silent dream.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

What does Avant gardening mean to you? <\/span><\/b>
The term \u201cgardening\u201d is rather awkward for me, as it suggests an occasional activity, something done at the end of the day or in one\u2019s spare time.
I prefer the expression \u201cavant garden,\u201d which to me refers to a multidimensional activity in which the organic and the biological are simply the translation into recognizable forms of the energy of places and people.<\/span><\/p>

At Orticolario 2026. <\/span><\/b>
What emotion or feeling you hope people experience when they encounter your project? <\/span><\/b>
A little surprise and a little estrangement, a little wonder and as much lightness as possible.<\/span><\/p>

If your project were music, what would it be? <\/span><\/b>
Concerto for mandolins RV 558 by Antonio Vivaldi (Allegro molto).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Five words that you closely associate with the concepts of dream and illusion<\/span><\/b>
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[BIO]<\/p>

Daniele Mongera was born in Portogruaro in 1964, developing from an early age a deep interest in gardens. During his architecture studies at the IUAV University of Venice, the decisive encounter with Ippolito Pizzetti took place, marking the beginning of a path that combines design practice with writing. In the 2000s he collaborated with the magazines VilleGiardini, Rosanova, and Gardenia,and published several books. From 2012 to 2016 he was president of the Associazione Maestri di Giardino. He currently works as a designer and contractor. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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