On Sunday 5 November at 11 a.m., the exhibitions concluding the 2023 season of the Museum of Organic Environmental Art will be inaugurated : ‘Container‘ by Pietruccia Bassu for the contemporary art section and ‘Antonello Menicucci and organic architecture‘, a retrospective dedicated to the architect who designed the CEDAP Space.
On Sunday 5 November, at 11 a.m. in the rooms of Spazio CEDAP, two new exhibitions will be inaugurated to conclude the 2023 season of the Organica Museum of Environmental Art: for the contemporary art section, the appointment is with Container, the new installation project by artist Pietruccia Bassu curated by Valerio Dehò, while the photography section hosts the exhibition Antonello Menicucci e l’architettura organica, a retrospective dedicated to architect Menicucci, author of the Spazio CEDAP project, which today houses the Organica Museum.
The poetics of artist Pietruccia Bassu renews the sense of belonging to a tradition, to a history, building projects on the sense of continuity and re-appropriation of memory. Her basic idea is to find in contemporary practices and languages, the possibility of handing down gestures, techniques, details that belong to her family’s tradition. With the installation work Container, the artist transports the family home in Ittiri into the exhibition space of the Museo Organica not only ideally, but also through the cadastral plans. The exhibition space thus becomes a mirror image of the parental home, a place where memories and memories are deposited. The title semantically refers not only to a place, an enclosed space, a container, but also to all the related practices and ancillary meanings such as holding back, repressing, avoiding excessive manifestations of feelings.
An integral part of the exhibition project are the drawers, containers that house expectations, lacks, deprivations, sociality between the public space of the ground floor of the family home and the private space of the first floor. The exhibition is curated by art critic Valerio Dehò who, in the critical text accompanying the exhibition, illustrates the underlying poetics of the work: “Every home possesses its own memory, the walls are fragile containers of affections, of defeats, of things that could be said and were not said, of things that we wanted to hear but no one ever said, and also of objects. It is the objects that speak of us in our absence, but it is these that have a life of their own, that show themselves and prove to be bearers of an existence separate from our own. Drawers become not only the containers of stored objects, but also a sort of memory refuge, a direct and simple form of archiving, but also often of unconscious forgetfulness. Neat structures that try to make up for the overlapping of memories’.
Pietruccia Bassu was born in Sassari in 1969 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in her city. The artist from Sassari belongs to that current that sees in contemporary art the possibility of preserving anthropological data, customs and memories of past generations, using art as an archive, a repository of traces. Bassu researches personal memories aimed at not dispersing the place of origin and its ritual symbols, using different expressive tendencies, from video to installation, and making use of objects with a high symbolic content that in her works take on new aesthetic and conceptual modes. He has participated in group exhibitions and festivals. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and artistic interventions in urban spaces in Sardinia and on the Peninsula.
Alongside Pietruccia Bassu’s exhibition, the retrospective exhibition Antonello Menicucci e l’architettura organica (Antonello Menicucci and Organic Architecture ), curated by art critic Giannella Demuro and architect Simone Vacca D’Avino with the support of Marcella Loy and Carlo Menicucci Loy, will also open on 5 November. The exhibition traces the career and poetics of Antonello Menicucci together with the history of CEDAP, a structure born in 2014 thanks to a redevelopment project of the architect from Tempio.
Menicucci’s work has always been characterised by a remarkable versatility of interests, linked to a curiosity for the world around him combined with an almost maniacal care in the design phase. Returning to Tempio Pausania after studying architecture in Rome and Florence, Menicucci made his debut in the early 1980s.
A constant in his work, both in the public and private sectors, is the attention he pays to the environment, in the dual meaning of natural and man-made environment, which has led him to deal with the territory with projects for the urban redevelopment of a number of Sardinian towns, and the urban regeneration of historic centres, archaeological sites or landscapes.
The deepening, in his personal research, of themes related to a greater knowledge of environmental issues, the impact that this has on the quality of life, has significantly influenced his most recent works. In his design choices, this is realised first of all by respecting the context, whether historical or natural, in which the structures are inserted, in the profound conviction that every new sign brought by man must fit into this context in a harmonious manner, respecting its spirit, using materials and typologies that, even in the natural evolution that everything undergoes, find a balance between what tradition and modern technologies provide in terms of aesthetics, symbolism or technology. In this sense, the CEDAP project was born, a structure designed to convert an area previously dedicated to the repopulation of Sardinian trout into a space dedicated to the environment and landscape. The building, which now houses the Museo Organica, is designed according to the principles of organic architecture and is harmoniously integrated with the nature of the forest. This is also thanks to the choice of using granite, a precious material of the area, and some stylistic elements that recall the natural forms present in the Curadureddu forest. The use of natural materials such as stone and wood, of these poetic signs inserted in natural contexts or within the structures, contributes to creating a subtle link between past and present, expressing an ancestral spirit in current and contemporary forms.
Various museum initiatives in conjunction with the exhibition activities.
On Saturday 11 November at 4 p.m., for the fifth edition of Qui c’è aria di cultura, the Sardinian publishing showcase ‘L’Isola dei libri’ – in Tempio from 10 to 12 November – ‘Storie, paesaggi, confini nelle Fiabe Italiane di Italo Calvino in occasione del centenario della nascita’, an oral narration meeting with Enedina Sanna, organised by the Sardinian Publishers’ Association.
From 18 to 26 November, Organica and CEAS Tempio will participate in ‘SERR – European Week for Waste Reduction’ with The Second Life of Things, an initiative dedicated to giving and exchange, as part of the regional project Plastics and the Circular Economy, in cooperation with the Omnia association.
On Saturday 16 December, the conference La montagna abitata (The inhabited mountain ), dedicated to the relationship between art, nature and architecture, will conclude the 2023 artistic programme.
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.
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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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