Osteria Francescana has no view of the sea or the mountains.
You can see neither a bell tower nor a town square.
Our horizon is shaped by imagination.
NEVER STOP PLANTING is a landscape of ideas.
Every month: art, stories, inspirations.
“WE Are The Revolution.”
This is not a slogan.
This is a manifesto.
An artwork in the Playground at Casa Maria Luigia shows Joseph Beuys walking in his determined gait, iconic felt hat, safari vest. He meets our gaze directly. The invitation is wordless and unmistakable: step into the frame. Become part of something larger than ourselves.
Credits: Paoli Terzi
Activist, teacher, thinker. Joseph Beuys imagines society itself as a living work of art — one in which every human being is an artist, called to participate in transforming the conditions and structures that shape our world. Not someday. Now.
“Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”
Ordinary gestures become revolutionary when they are understood as part of a shared creative process. This is how Beuys’s manifesto finds its way into our kitchens.
“WE Are The Revolution.”
Change happens when WE prevails over individual ambition.
When WE choose to unite rather than divide.
When WE bring together different cultures, perspectives, and experiences.
This is how we transform an ingredient into a story.
A recipe into a social gesture.
The ordinary into the extraordinary.
This is how we act beyond our stovetops.
Spread beauty outside our kitchens.
And never stop planting new ideas.
Credits: Letizia Cigliutti
Difesa della Natura — Defense of Nature. The banner that greets us every day at Casa Maria Luigia takes its name from one of Beuys’s most enduring initiatives: a long-term ecological project in which the planting of 7,000 trees became a living work of art. Not a metaphor for change. Change itself, rooted in the ground.
For Beuys, defending nature is never only about the environment. It means defending human creativity, freedom, and our shared responsibility to shape the future. Nature and culture are never separate. We are nature. And nature is us.
Credits: Giulia Ricci
A yellow lightbulb. A lemon. A simple electrical circuit.
Plug one into the other and imagine the light coming on.
Capri Battery connects science, poetry, and the ordinary miracle of energy. Electricity seems to flow from the fruit: nature powering culture, color brought into the world by something as humble as a lemon from a tree.
Energy is not only something we consume.
It is something we imagine, create, and share.
Nature gives us energy.
And WE are the batteries.
Art is not a noun. It is a verb.
It revolutionises the way we see and move through the world.
NEVER STOP PLANTING.
