The programming of Organica museum of environmental art continues in the Limbara Park. On Sunday 18 June, the inauguration of the new exhibitions and a series of initiatives dedicated to art, literature and the environment.
In the morning, in the exhibition halls of Spazio CEDAP: “The middle zone” by Gavino Ganau and “Lungo i sentieri di Faber”, retrospective dedicated to Fabrizio De André, in the afternoon, workshops on the environment and sustainability for adults and children and a meeting with writer Alessandro De Roma
A few kilometres from the centre of Tempio Pausania, in the Bosco di Curadureddu, the exhibition activities of Organica, the environmental art museum dedicated to contemporary art and photography, directed by art critic Giannella Demuro, continue.
On the occasion of the vernissages of the two new exhibitions, on Sunday 18 June, the Museum offers a day full of events, workshops and presentations designed to actively experience the nature of Monte Limbara.
The events will begin at 11:00 am with the placement of a commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Curadureddu forest to celebrate participation in the 2022 national campaign of the FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano “I luoghi del cuore” (The places of the heart), which elected the forest the third place of the heart in the ranking of the region of Sardinia. The event is organised in collaboration with the Gallura section of the FAI.
Exhibitions
Opening on Sunday 18 June at 11.30 a.m. in the halls of Spazio CEDAP, two new exhibitions of the 2023 programme of the Museo Organica (open until 20 July). For the contemporary art section, the appointment is with The middle zone, the new personal exhibition by Gavino Ganau curated by Alessandra Menesini; for the photographic and multimedia section, the retrospective Lungo i sentieri di Faber dedicated to the Gallurese years of the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André curated by Giannella Demuro and Giovanni Gelsomino in collaboration with the Iskeliu association, the Tempio Faber Festival, the association “Amici di Fabrizio De André” and La Nuova Sardegna.
– Tempio artist Gavino Ganau will be the protagonist of the second cycle of appointments at the Organica Museum for the contemporary art section with his solo exhibition ‘The middle zone‘. The exhibition, curated by critic Alessandra Menesini, presents a series of paintings on canvas with an ornithological theme, imbued with an idea of archaic and idealised nature, simple and evocative at the same time. The subjects portrayed stand out against deliberately artificial, unnatural and disorienting backgrounds, alluding to irreversible anthropisation. The reflection is reinforced by the electro-acoustic sound carpet by Marco Dibeltulu and LanD ExcapE. The curator writes about the exhibition: “Mildly alarming. They stand out against acid green backgrounds, against pale sky-blues, against indefinite whites, against pinkish spreads. Sometimes they flutter, more often they are motionless, Gavino Ganau’s ‘birds’. Feathered creatures that perch on branches, fronds, sticks. Unaware of being threatened, they offer themselves to the gaze in their tender beauty, even if there are thorns under their legs. No naturalistic intent, no bucolic vision in the portraits of these feathers that inhabit ‘The middle zone’, a middle ground that is also a border. A pass, perhaps. However, a place from which one cannot see the sky, which has no horizons, which has little space. Gavino Ganau resets perspective to zero in his unreal settings laden with colour. Red, black, yellow, as vital vibrations of light and fragile beings. […] And safe, for now, from any possible mutation. But embedded in a vaguely toxic if shining atmosphere. A contrast rendered almost inapparent by the mastery of an author who digs inside his subjects and represents the visible and what is hidden‘.
Gavino Ganau (Tempio Pausania, 1966) lives and works in Sassari. His work was initially fuelled by a confrontation with mass-media languages and popular contemporary icons with works grouped in different thematic strands. Later, Ganau focused his research on ordinary people caught in disparate environments. His recent work is based on a new chromatic and luministic dimension that is broader than the initial black and white. A new technical approach that permeates his painting with novelty, while remaining tied to his favourite subjects.
Marco Dibeltulu studied Composition, Choral Music, Choir Direction and Electronic Music (with Francesco Giomi, Sylviane Sapir and Elio Martusciello) at the Conservatory of Cagliari. He also graduated in Music Didactics at the Sassari Conservatory and teaches Music Technology at the Liceo musicale ‘D.A. Azuni’ in Sassari.
LanD ExcapE is an electronic music project, the brainchild of Gavino Ganau (Raissa and the Melters). Currently, LanD ExcapE features Giovanni Dibeltulu (Itch, Raissa and the Melters) as co-author. The project addresses socio-ecological issues, musically narrating the concept of unsustainability.
– Alongside the Gavino Ganau exhibition, 18 June also sees the opening of Lungo i sentieri di Faber, the retrospective on Fabrizio De André curated by Giannella Demuro and Giovanni Gelsomino. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Iskeliu association, the Tempio Faber Festival, the ‘Amici di Fabrizio De André’ association and La Nuova Sardegna, aims to offer an emotional glimpse of the singer-songwriter’s ‘Gallurese’ years. In the mid-1970s, Fabrizio De André and his partner Dori Ghezzi decided to buy a stazzo not far from the ‘City of Stone’ and to live a simple and genuine country life. That stazzo, Agnata, became their refuge and home. Giovanni Gelsomino writes about it: ‘A land (Gallura) that he loved immediately and that practically regenerated him, giving him back that “sense of simple things” that are the things that make a man’s life, the things that really count. That mattered to him. Not an escape from the city, then, not the search for a hermitage where one can isolate oneself and escape every call. Simply a meeting among people who know how to look you in the eye, who know how to live life in its primordial rhythms, in its most genuine values, where it is possible to stay alive serenely, talking, listening, making friends with the locals, the simple people, learning their language, immersing oneself in their culture and tradition, finding new humus that will become, in De André, poetry’. A tribute, therefore, to Faber’s passage in Gallura through photos, memories, testimonies and multimedia installations.
The exhibition Lungo i sentieri di Faber (Along Faber’s Paths ) is part of the events of the 18th edition of the Tempio Faber Festival, staged in Tempio from 14 to 16 July, with a special stage on Sunday 16 July in the Bosco di Curadureddu: the programme includes the presentation of the book ‘De André e l’isola paradiso’ (De André and Paradise Island) by Giovanni Gelsomino and an unprecedented evening concert that will conclude the Festival.
Books
The day continues at 6 p.m. with the first appointment of the season dedicated to literature. The protagonist will be writer Alessandro De Roma, who will present his latest novel “Grande terra sommersa” published by Fandango. Sara Puggioni will dialogue with the writer. The event is organised in collaboration with the Bardamù Bookshop in Tempio Pausania. Alessandro De Roma is one of the most authoritative and interesting voices on the national literary scene. After his debut with the Maestrale in 2007, the author has published for Bompiani and Einaudi and his works have been translated in France by Gallimard. His seventh novel, ‘Great Submerged Earth‘, published in January 2023, tells the story of young Pietro Stefano Mele. When his mother slips and hits her head on a rock, he begins a long battle with his own guilt. His father, Seb, places the responsibility for the incident on Pietro and abandons him in the small Sardinian village of San Leonardo de Siete Fuentes, at the home of a hitherto unknown grandmother. This is the beginning of the story of the formation to life of a boy who symbolises the wild spirit that dwells in every individual.
Alessandro De Roma (1970) was born and lives in Sardinia, where he teaches history and philosophy. He has published the novels: Vita e morte di Ludovico Lauter (Il Maestrale 2007), La fine dei giorni (Il Maestrale 2008), Il primo passo nel bosco (Il Maestrale 2010), Quando tutto tace (Bompiani 2011), La mia maledizione (Einaudi 2014), Nessuno resta solo (Einaudi 2021). Some of his books have been translated in France by the publisher Gallimard.
Workshops
In the afternoon of 18 June, starting at 3 p.m., two new workshops for young and old will be held as part of Organica GreenLAB, a section of the museum dedicated to the environment and sustainable creativity in cooperation with CEAS Tempio.
– The “Mediterranean Soaps” workshop (from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.) held by master soap-maker Gavina Zuncheddu aims to offer a theoretical and practical approach to cold saponification, an ancient method that produces soaps rich in nutrients that are particularly gentle on the skin (from 18 years of age and up). Realised in collaboration with the Italian Association of Artisan Soapmakers.
– “Il paesaggio racconta” (from 3 to 5 p.m.) is a sensory exploration, drawing, frottage and photography workshop dedicated to children aged 6 and up. Together with Marta Pala of Spazio per Aria, the young participants will explore the Curadureddu forest in search of precious materials that will compose a handmade booklet.
Limited places. For info and reservations: 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.
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