On Sunday 23 July at 11 a.m., appointments with contemporary art continue at the Museum of Organic Environmental Art in the Limbara Park.
The exhibitions ‘Museo di Storia Innaturale’ by sculptor Dario Ghibaudo and ‘La ‘janna a lianti ‘ by photographer Nanni Angeli inaugurate the new cycle of exhibitions that can be visited until 24 August at the Spazio CEDAP in the Bosco di Curadureddu.
In the afternoon, meetings with artists and workshops on the environment and sustainability.
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 Sunday 23 July, at 11 a.m. in the halls of CEDAP, two new exhibitions will be inaugurated: for the contemporary art section, the appointment is with Museo di Storia Innaturale (Museum of Unnatural History), a section of the large exhibition project by Piedmontese sculptor Dario Ghibaudo, curated by Ivo Serafino Fenu, while the photography section hosts the exhibition La ‘janna a lianti( The ‘janna a lianti), a reportage dedicated to the typical rural settlements of Gallura by photographer Nanni Angeli.
In the afternoon, starting at 3 p.m., as part of Organica GreenLAB, a section of the museum dedicated to the environment and sustainable creativity in collaboration with CEAS Tempio, the creative workshop La Gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) will be held, led by Maria Viola Oggiano.
The Cuneo artist Dario Ghibaudo, one of the founders of Italian Ironic Conceptualism, is the creator of the extraordinary Museum of Unnatural History, an artistic project in which all his works created since the early 1990s come together. Structured with the Enlightenment rigour of an 18th-century-style natural history museum, it is an ever-growing virtual museum characterised by research that uses irony to analyse society, its contradictions and its discomforts. In Ghibaudo’s research, fantastic creatures originate from genetic and symbolic hybrids, mixing traditions and iconographic memories.
“The project,” explains Ivo Serafino Fenu, curator of the exhibition, “is divided into virtual and real halls, ideally hosting and compartmentalising the various branches, twenty-five to date, ranging from Anthropology to Entomology, from Botany to Mutant Beings and Rare Specimens, from Ethnography to Anamorphosis, to name but a few. Within them appear hybrid and mutant beings, hybridised by physical and cultural metamorphic processes in the making, authenticated and, therefore, certified by the artist demiurge who christens them with names in Latin, as rigorous and icastic in describing their peculiarities as they are ironic and corrosive towards the assertiveness of scientific processes themselves: Hippotragus anteropostus spinatus, Antilocapra varicruris longicaudata, Avis canidi horroficati, Octopus caput avis, Capronis sexpedatus cum cauda pisciorum – just to mention a few, several of which are on show in the CEDAP space for the Organica contemporary art museum – often united by a common fish tail, a tribute and, at the same time, a mockery of the scientific theories that would like the origin of life on earth to be in a marine environment”.
The exhibition ‘Museum of Unnatural History‘ is realised in collaboration with the Luigi De Ambrogi and CARLOCINQUE Galleries in Milan.
Dario Ghibaudo was born in 1951. He lives and works in Milan and is one of the founders of Italian Ironic Conceptualism, an artistic movement that originated in Germany in the early 1990s. His artistic research is articulated in the large and original project of the Museo di Storia Innaturale (Museum of Unnatural History) – on which the artist has been working since 1990 in continuous growth – structured as an eighteenth-century natural history museum, for the realisation of which he uses different media: from resins to porcelain, from synthetic materials to stone, marble, cement and papier mâché. A tireless draughtsman, his inks, even large ones, are drawn directly on paper with a nib, without any preparatory drawing. His works can be found in important public and private collections in Italy and abroad, including Château d’Oiron (F), Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart (G), Mart in Rovereto, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan (ARM), Vaf Collection Frankfurt (G), Igav Foundation in Turin and La Gaia Collection in Busca, Cuneo.
Alongside Dario Ghibaudo’s exhibition, 23 July also sees the opening of the solo exhibition La ‘janna a lianti by photographer Nanni Angeli.
The exhibition is avisual investigation dedicated to the world of the stazzo, the territorial and socio-economic cell of the Gallura countryside until the first half of the 1960s. Together with language, the culture of the stazzi was the main distinguishing factor of the historical region of Gallura from the rest of Sardinia, and even today, although it has often lost its original function, it is still of great importance in the visual, cultural and human landscape of the area. Curator Riccardo Mura writes: ‘It is a rare gaze, that of Nanni Angeli, perhaps unique. For La ‘janna a lianti, after a long stay in Bologna, Angeli returns to the paths of his memory as a child born and raised in Gallura, those real and metaphorical paths that snared the trajectories of the unsuspecting future photographer’s gaze, taming him to recognise the beauty – sometimes obvious, more often hidden among the debris – of the Gallura stazzi. It is the gaze of a witness who takes on the responsibility of documenting what remains, what flees or ruins, but also what arrives and grafts itself, sometimes wildly, onto the survivals of a civilisation that over the centuries has taken root silently and discreetly in this corner of the Mediterranean”.
The author, together with the curator of the exhibition Riccardo Mura, will talk to the public from 3.30 p.m. onwards, presenting aspects of the fieldwork and the results of the photographic research on the territory.
Nanni Angeli was born in 1969. In the early 1990s, he started several photographic projects on Sardinia. From 1992 to 2011 he lived in Bologna and, as a stage, music and theatre photographer, he documented the Bologna scene, conducting research on the photographic representation of performance events. He has published in numerous books, magazines and newspapers, in Italy and abroad. He is active in the field of teaching and dissemination of photographic culture. Since 1996, with Paolo Angeli, he has directed the International Festival Isole che Parlano. Since 2011, he lives and works in Sardinia.
On the afternoon of 23 July,from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., as part of Organica GreenLAB, a section of the museum dedicated to the environment and sustainable creativity, La Gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), an eco-friendly jewellery workshop, will be held. Starting from simple sheets of paper, the art-designer Maria Viola Oggiano will teach participants how to build jewellery with a fresh and up-to-date design using the “quilling” technique, paper filigree moulded into various shapes: a sustainable and creative way to give new life to printed paper and create original gift ideas with a very low environmental impact.(Limited places. For info and reservations: 347 2570908)
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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The Museo Organica can be reached from Tempio, Olbia and Sassari along the SS 392 state road, and then on foot along one of the picturesque paths through the Limbara forests.
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