Press release 10.05.2023
On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, the Museo Organica opens its 2023 calendar with many events dedicated to art, culture and the environment.
Two exhibitions are scheduled in the exhibition halls of Spazio CEDAP:
“Purché sia verde?” by Giorgio Urgeghe and “ap:arente’mente” by photographer Ivano Piva; on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14, there will be many workshops on the environment and sustainability as part of the two-day Open CEAS and Sustainable Development Festival.
In the Bosco di Curadureddu on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, the Museo Organica, directed by Giannella Demuro, inaugurates the events that open the 2023 calendar, which includes from May to December a full calendar of exhibitions, workshops, performances, happenings, concerts and cultural trekking appointments dedicated to the discovery of places, the excellence of the territory and reflection on the themes of environmental sustainability.
Inaugurations
On Sunday 14 May, at 11 a.m. in the halls of CEDAP, two new exhibitions will be inaugurated, which can be visited until 15 June. For the contemporary art section, the appointment is with Purché sia verde? (As long as it’s green?), Giorgio Urgeghe’s new and unpublished solo exhibition curated by Mariolina Cosseddu; for the photography section, it will be the turn of Ivano Piva’s ap:arente’mente project curated by Ivo Serafino Fenu.
The exhibitions will remain open until 15 June.
The museum’s permanent exhibits can be viewed outdoors, along the paths of the Curadureddu forest.
Exhibitions
It will be Giorgio Urgeghe, the dean artist of contemporary visual research in Sardinia, who will inaugurate the new season with his solo exhibition “As long as it is green?” curated by historian and art critic Mariolina Cosseddu, who writes of the exhibition: “The title of the exhibition, in fact, does not require a question mark: yet that graphic sign gives meaning to the questions Giorgio Urgeghe has been asking himself for some time. It is undoubtedly true that green is the pass that, lately, opens any door and projects us into ideal and consoling worlds. A world of good, just, legitimate things that save the world and soothe the bad conscience. We live in the time of the ‘green’, of the dazzling green that invites to well-being, to regain the lost paradise, to overturn the mortifying reality: Green Line, The Green Century, Green Tales, just to name a few lucky slogans between TV and fiction. But will it really be like that? – asks Giorgio Urgeghe. Or have we created another myth, one of those that Roland Barthes lucidly analysed decades ago to provide us with a reasoned radiography of the years of affluence? So we are quick to forget environmental disasters, tormented nature, bad habits. Can art serve to reflect on worthless clichés? On the misuse of words and superficial communication?”.
Giorgio Urgeghe was born in Sassari in 1963 and lives and works here. After graduating from Sassari’s Istituto Statale d’Arte, in 1986 he was selected for the I Biennale dei Giovani in Sassari. Between the 1980s and 1990s, he was among the protagonists of the various initiatives of the city’s young art movement. His work was immediately oriented in the dual direction of painting and installation, not disdaining other forms of expression such as digital printing. His poetics, often articulated between the childish dimension and that of comic derivation, makes playfulness the inverted mirror of the adult world.
Alongside Giorgio Urgeghe’s exhibition, Ivano Piva’s ap:arente’mente, curated by Ivo Serafino Fenu, will also be inaugurated on 14 May. The photographic project stems from the observation of places commonly dedicated to leisure and well-being: beaches. Here the photographer lingers his gaze, finding objects that make those places only ‘apparently’ paradisiacal: plastics, rubbish carelessly abandoned or brought back ashore by the perpetual motion of the sea that has regurgitated them, highlighting carelessness and inattention. Taken out of their context, these objects become relics: they are still recognisable for what they were, but not easily traceable to where they were found. Transformed into photographic subjects, the images live in the contrast between their obvious danger to the environment and their apparent harmlessness. Curator Ivo Serafino Fenu writes: “Ivano Piva gives his act of witnessing an effective artistic and conceptual value that reinforces its documentary and denunciation intentions. After a selection of materials collected on the beaches, he carries out an operation of re-composition of them on an overhead projector. This process gives rise to formally complete works, oxymorically abstract even though they are obtained from very concrete and identifiable materials […], with the paradox of plunging the spiritual and lyrical dimension of these\ into a chasm of social and environmental decay that is far less poetic”.
Ivano Piva was born in Turin where he studied advertising graphics but was soon absorbed by photography. He first assisted fashion photographers in Milan, then still-life photographers in New York in studios specialising in ‘food photography’. Since 1985 he has worked mainly in commercial photography, collaborating with companies and advertising agencies. Lecturer in shooting techniques at the European Institute of Design from 2003 to 2021, he prefers simplicity in communication. He currently lives in Monteleone Roccadoria, the second smallest town in Sardinia, where he has chosen to move and work.
With these two new exhibitions, Organica’s reflection on the relationship between man and nature continues: a new moment of ‘encounter’ with the places of the Island, an original opportunity to discover the extraordinary beauty of this land, its territories and its Parks and, at the same time, to offer food for thought on the complex relationship between human beings and the natural environment, on ecology and sustainability, also with a view to promoting and enhancing the natural, environmental and landscape heritage of the Limbara Park. An objective that is pursued through the visual languages of our time, exploring the work of artists who pay special attention to the world of nature and environmental issues and who represent some of the most interesting outcomes of contemporary visual research in Sardinia and beyond.
Open CEAS and Festival of Sustainable Development
On 13 and 14 May CEDAP joins the initiative ???????????????? ???????????????????????? during the promotion days of the INFEAS network – Information, Training and Education for the Environment and Sustainability with Organica GreenLAB, a series of workshops dedicated to adults and children. The appointments are also part of the seventh edition of the Festival of Sustainable Development, the largest Italian initiative to raise awareness and mobilise citizens, the younger generations, businesses, associations and institutions on issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
On Saturday 13 May, starting at 10 a.m., the Museo Organica will welcome mothers and children for the Pachamama children’s yoga and pilates workshop. While the mothers will be practising Pilates together with teacher Velia Puddu, the children – divided into ages 5/7 and 8/10 – will learn asanas and yogic breathing in a playful way together with children’s yoga teacher Letizia Cascioni. The lessons will be held inside the Museo Organica with a special preview of the art and photography exhibitions opening the following day.
Workshop with limited places. For info and bookings 347 2570908.
On the afternoon of 14 May, there will be two workshops dedicated to creative recycling and the nature of the Limbara. From 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. there will be the Riciclattoli workshop, a workshop for reusing plastic waste that, thanks to the participants’ imagination, can be reborn as toys. The workshop, organised by Rita Virdis, is open to children of all ages, accompanied by their parents or an adult. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. the Plasticando workshop, curated by architect Simone Vacca D’avino. The initiative develops new ideas and construction techniques with the aid of technology and as a stimulus to the imagination of children and adults in order to create new digital artisans. During the workshop, a multi-sensory abstract painting will be realised using three-dimensional analysis software of views from the top of Mount Limbara. From 8 to 99 years old!
The Recycling and Plasticando workshops are free of charge.
Booking is recommended (for info: 347 2570908).
All Organica events are held on the slopes of Mount Limbara, near Tempio Pausania: in the Curadureddu forest and at the CEDAP – Centre for Education and Documentation on the Environment and Landscape.
The CEDAP space has two exhibition rooms, one dedicated to contemporary art and the other to photography, and is also an information point for hiking, environmental and cultural activities in the area.
The locality can be reached from Tempio, Olbia and Sassari along the SS 392 state road, and then on foot along one of the evocative paths that lead into the Limbara forests.
Organica – museum of environmental art in the Limbara Park is a project of the cultural association tramedarte, curated by the art critic Giannella Demuro and realised with the support of the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, the Fondazione di Sardegna, the Region of Sardinia – Department of Environmental Protection, Salude & Trigu – Chamber of Commerce of Sassari and in collaboration with: Agenzia Forestale Regionale per lo Sviluppo del Territorio e dell’Ambiente della Sardegna Fo.Re.S.T.A.S., Confcommercio Nord Sardegna, GAL Gallura, Accademia di Belle Arti “Mario Sironi”, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza, Touring Club Italiano, FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Sassari; with the associations: AIPD – Associazione Italiana Persone Down – sez. Gallura, Iskeliu, La Sardegna vista da vicino, Omnia, S’Ala Produzione, Sonos & Sounds; with partners: Centro Multidisciplinare L’Arcobaleno, Cantina Sociale Gallura, Cinedigital srl, Escursì.com, Gallura Mia srl, Giua abbigliamento, Il Nuovo Giardino, Il Vecchio Corso BB, Hotel Pausania Inn, Vallicciola Nature Hotel.
city: Tempio Pausania (SS)
location: Monte Limbara | locality Curadureddu / CEDAP – Centre for Environmental and Landscape Education and Documentation (SS 392 Tempio-Oschiri)
INFO
cell. 339 5906900 | info@tramedarte.org
tramedarte
www.tramedarte.org
Exhibitions at Spazio CEDAP
opening hours: Tuesday to Thursday 12-17 pm; Friday to Sunday 12-18 pm, closed on Mondays.
INFO
cell. 339 5906900; 347 2570908 | info@tramedarte.org
