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For the Art Park, Marguerite Humeau conceived a monumental sculpture. Placed alongside Nebbiolo grapevines on top of the Hill of San Licerio, Rise is growth, birth, a new beginning. Realised in smelt aluminium, it comprises a multiplicity of parts exploding from its centre. Every module recreates in large scale the grapevines’ microscopic male and female flowers. The twine evokes their first pollination, the encounter that generated the first hermaphrodite flower, typical of the Sativa subspecies of Vitis vinifera, which resulted from savvy selection performed by ancient vine growers. The artwork was born of in-depth research that involved the local community and experts: wine producers, researchers on alchemic traditions and healers (here known as masche), geologists, specialists in renewable energies and biotechnologies, botanists, and biologists.