Tuscan-born artist Massimo Bartolini has created a charming plein air library for this year’s Track festival in beautiful Ghent, Belgium. Bartolini’s instatallation, Bookyard, is a series of 12 long bookshelves set in the vinyard of the medieval Sint-Pieters Abbey in the heart of Ghent.

The shelves are filled with donated books, which are all for sale to benefit libraries in Ghent and Antwerp. Bookyard will be up until September 16, 2012. Having once spent a long, wet weekend in Ghent, I am concerned about the state of the books after a few weeks in the Flanders damp.

Bookyard is just one of the marvelous pieces from this year’s event. Track: a contemporary city conversation is an annual art experience in public and semi-public spaces around the ancient city of Ghent. More than forty artist are invited each year to create new works that are “rooted in the urban fabric of Ghent”.