Gucci – Nature in C Major
In this artwork, commissioned by Gucci for the exhibition Gucci | Bamboo Encounters curated by 2050+ for the Milan Design Week 2025, Alocci explores bamboo — not just as a material but as a living archive, a symbol of resilience, craftsmanship and organic evolution.
Bamboo has long been an emblem of Gucci's vision— an intersection of tradition and modernity, craftsmanship and innovation. Alocci looks at bamboo not just as a material but as a system, examining its growth patterns, structural integrity and cultural symbolism. The final piece is a data visualisation of this research, capturing bamboo's presence through motion, texture and sound.
The work visualises a 'morphological' dataset comprising a series of physical traits for ten commercially significant bamboo species. The morphological data for the ten species take the form of ten clusters of curved lines, each dedicated to a specific bamboo variety, aesthetically evoking the shape of a bamboo node section. The length of each line corresponds to a particular morphological characteristic (height, diameter, et.), converting abstract numbers into a visual and poetic trace. Alongside this, a sound composition springs from ambient recordings of fire and steam interacting with bamboo during its bending process, capturing its acoustic nuances and the transfer of its energy. The peaks traced along the lines indicate amplitude, hence volume, revealing the interplay between fire, steam and plant fibres.
Tiziana Alocci, Nature in C Major, Visualisation of Morphological Data from 10 Species of Bamboo
Immersive soundscape
Alocci also created the soundscape featured in the exhibition Bamboo Forest. It springs from ambient recordings of fire and steam interacting with bamboo during the bending process, capturing its acoustic nuances and transformative energy. Within the artwork, found in the fanzine, the waveform is displayed in a circular format, a gesture that renders the cyclical and breathing quality of the sound tangible. The peaks traced along the lines indicate amplitude, hence volume, revealing the interplay between fire, steam, and plant fibres.
The animated version of the visualisation has been shared on Gucci Instagram page on April 9th 2025.
Tiziana Alocci, Preliminary Sketches
