Sunday 1 October at 11 a.m. the Museo Organica
opens the autumn season with two new art and photography exhibitions:
the installation ‘Che io non sia una rupe ma acqua e cielo’ by artist Pierluigi Calignano and
“Paths of a Naturalist”dedicated to Tempio naturalist Michele Tamponi.
The exhibitions will be open until 2 November at the Spazio CEDAP in the Bosco di Curadureddu.
In the afternoon, a children’s workshop dedicated to nature.
In the beautiful setting of Monte Limbara, the Organica Museum of Environmental Art opens the autumn season with two new exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art and photography. Opening on Sunday 1 October at 11 a.m. in the halls of CEDAP, two new exhibitions: for the contemporary art section, the appointment is with Che io non sia una rupe ma acqua e cielo, a large site-specific installation by the Apulian artist Pierluigi Calignano, curated by Giannella Demuro, while the photography section hosts the exhibition Percorsi di un naturalista_visioni di paesaggiodedicated tothe Tempiese naturalist Michele Tamponi.
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, there will be a free movement workshop entitled Saremo alberi (We will be trees), led by Marta Pala and aimed at children aged 3 to 6.
Apulian artist Pierluigi Calignano is a cultured, refined and ironic exponent of that peculiar and important trend in contemporary arts known as conceptual art. The term, used since the 1960s, rather than a style, a language or a movement, indicates a set of instances, strategies and artistic practices that are often different from each other, attentive not so much to the ‘product’, to the concrete result obtained, but to the ‘process’ itself of making art. For conceptual artists, in fact, art is theidea, an idea that pervades form, space and time and that imposes – or rather, puts its urgency before all other instances, whether formal or visual.
Calignano, already present with recent work in the permanent collection of the park-museum, has set up the exhibition space with an impressive site-specific installation entitled Che io non sia una rupe ma acqua e cielo, inspired by the natural world. The artist approaches it through the exercise of colour: he creates, experiments, stratifies, juxtaposes with apparent causality, on light sheets of paper, infinite colour combinations, then arranges them along the walls, creating perceptual states through which to register the changing of things, their presence and absence, their existence in space. With colour, Calignano subtracts the white walls of the building from their primary function as a barrier, cancels the boundary between the natural area of the forest and the built space of the museum. Amidst the innumerable drawn shapes that reproduce geometries that can be traced back to the shape of the sheet of paper on which the coloured pigments are spread and to the regular perimeter of the exhibition space, vibrations of light and colour strike the air and the trees in a unified space with no longer any distinction between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’.
After studying at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts,Pierluigi Calignano attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Fondazione Ratti in Como in 1995 with Visiting Professor Joseph Kosuth. From 2007 to 2016, he lived and worked between Italy and the USA, where he took part in programmes such as ISCP, New York; I-Park Residency Program, East Haddam, Connecticut; Art Omi International Artist’s Residency, Ghent, NY and, in 2016, he created a permanent public work at the Parkside Community Complex PISIS 437K in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
He has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions in museums and private public spaces in Italy and abroad, including: Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro (Milan), Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi; LWZ Projekte, Vienna (AT); Carbone.to, Turin; Groninger Museum, Groningen (NL); Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare; Wäscherei Kunstverein, Zürigo (CH); Röda Sten Museum, Göteborg (IE); Tirana Biennial (AL).
The exhibition Percorsi di un naturalista_visionidi paesaggio ( Paths of a naturalist_viewsof the landscape ) is dedicated to Michele Tamponi, the Tempiese naturalist and founder of Cammina Limbara, an association set up in 1997 to make hiking an educational tool for the nature of the Gallura massif, and a founding member of the association La Sardegna vista da vicino (Sardinia seen up close).
The places represented in the exhibition, the fruit of the various photographic workshops conceived and realised by “La Sardegna vista da vicino” (Sardinia seen up close), focus on Mount Limbara, the granite giant of Gallura, which Tamponi explored and travelled extensively, realising what he himself described as “an incomparable journey on foot around and inside the mountain, where I felt at home but sometimes lost, a stone’s throw from Tempio, or from Calangianus, Berchidda, Oschiri”. The images on display tell the story of the Limbara massif, one of Sardinia’s most evocative natural and human landscapes, as a scenario of contrasts: a denied space, of solitude, hardly accessible, but also a ‘powerful’ place, full of potential, some of which is still hidden and invisible. A corner of Sardinia where nature fascinates precisely because of its inexhaustible capacity to surprise with the rugged and wild shapes of the rocks, the explosions of light and colour, the roar of crystal-clear spring waters from which spring the rhythms of social and economic life, the melodies, the passions, the ancient and recent history of the communities that inhabit it.
On the afternoon of 1 October,from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., as part of Organica GreenLAB, a section of the museum dedicated to the environment and sustainable creativity, in collaboration with CEAS Tempio, Saremo alberi (We will be trees) will be held, a movement workshop dedicated to children aged 3 to 6. Guided by atelierista Marta Pala of Spazio per aria, the little ones will move between sky and earth, immersing themselves in the forest to listen to its stories, made of leaves and wind, branches and pebbles, fresh earth and water, and mysterious footprints.
(free participation – 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, Escursì.com, Gallura Mia srl, Giua Abbigliamento, Il Nuovo Giardino, Il Vecchio Corso BB, Hotel Pausania Inn, Vallicciola Nature Hotel.
INFO
– 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.
– cell. 339 5906900 | info@tramedarte.org | www.tramedarte.org
– Spazio CEDAP exhibition hours: Tuesday to Thursday 12-17 pm; Friday to Sunday 12-18 pm, closed on Mondays.
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