“Step out of your cave: the world waits for you as a garden. The wind plays with heavy fragrance, which seeks for you; and all brooks would like to run after you.”

Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

When Zarathustra talked of a garden, he is referring to “Pari-Daez”. This Persian word means exceptional garden and gives its name to our Paradise. The garden as a “slice” of terrestrial paradise is considered by Persian tradition as an enclosed space dedicated to spiritual rest and recreation, in harmony with and open to the senses. The paradise evoked here is the promise of an ideal world.

In his book “The Third Paradise”, the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto imagined a future where nature and artifice meet, overcoming the destructive conflict, which puts them at odds today to create to a new phase in civilisation.

It is exactly the experience of convergence that Paris-based artist Hicham Berrada investigates through his first solo exhibition in Berlin's Wentrup Gallery. He invites the spectator into his garden, a meeting place between nature and artifice.

The exhibition is on display until January 16, 2016. You'll find more info about 'Caverne' here.