During the summer months of 2011, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
inaugurated a sculpture project on the grounds of the Froh Ussicht
estate in Samstagern, Zurich. The project was inspired by Bomarzo, the
famous Italian Renaissance garden populated with fantastical and
monstrous sculptures and follies (i.e. buildings constructed primarily
for the embellishment of a landscape). Artists Pablo Bronstein, Liz
Craft, Ida Ekblad, Geoffrey Farmer, Kerstin Kartscher, Ragnar
Kjartansson, Fabian Marti, Peter Regli and Thiago Rocha Pitta all
devised their own fantastical narratives in response to Bomarzo. The
Garden of Forking Paths enlarges upon this innovative exhibition with
reproductions of installed works, and essays by some of the finest
architecture and garden theorists and writers on the history of follies
and the interaction between art and garden: Lars Bang Larsen, Michael
Bracewell, Horst Bredekamp, Brian Dillon, Patrick Eyres, Heike Munder,
Anthony Vidler and Catherine Wood.