Contemporary art at the foot of the Limbara
In Tempio Pausania, the new season of the ‘Organica’ environmental art museum immersed in the unspoilt nature of the Limbara Park opens on Sunday, 26 May. From May to December 2024 in the Bosco di Curadureddu a rich programme of exhibitions, installations, cultural events and environmental workshops.
The 2024 season of the Museum of Environmental Art ‘Organica’ opened with a press conference on 15 May in Tempio Pausania. Together with Giannella Demuro, who is in charge of the museum’s artistic direction, the mayor of Tempio Gianni Addis, the municipal councillor for tourism Elizabeth Vargiu, the general secretary Stefania Giua, the Italian Touring Club consul Franco Sardi and Vanni Bionda of the FAI Olbia Tempio group took part.
The ‘Organica’ Museum of Environmental Art , in the Limbara Park, is ready to open its doors for a season that will run from May to December 2024 with 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 environmental sustainability issues.
The common thread between the various activities of the project, now in its fifth season, is the relationship between man and nature. ‘Organica‘ was created to create a moment of ‘encounter’ with the places on the island, an original opportunity to discover the extraordinary beauty of this land and, at the same time, offer food for thought on the complex relationship between human beings and the natural environment.
Ten exhibitions are scheduled in the exhibition spaces of CEDAP – Centro per la Documentazione sull’Ambiente e sul Paesaggio located a few kilometres from Tempio Pausania, in the Curadureddu forest, dedicated to contemporary art, nature photography and the environment.
The protagonists of calendar 2024 are five visual artists who pay special attention to environmental issues, representing some of the most interesting outcomes of contemporary visual research in Sardinia and on the Peninsula: Daniela and Francesca Manca, Eleonora Desole, Alex Pinna, Antonella Spanu, and Monica Solinas.
Alongside the contemporary art exhibitions, there are also photographic and documentary exhibitions that tell the story of Gallura and Sardinia, in the shots of Cédric Dasesson and in the photos selected from Vittorio Ruggero ‘s impressive historical photographic archive. Also on the programme are a new special project dedicated to Tempio naturalist Costantino Brundu and a photo contest on the theme of water as part of the project “Acquamontana – percorsi di sostenibilità tra arte, acqua e natura lungo la via delle acque” (Acquamontana – sustainability paths between art, water and nature along the waterway).
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Opening the rich 2024 programme will be the artistic partnership of sisters Daniela and Francesca Manca. Born in Oristano, after attending the IstitutoStatale d‘Arte Carlo Contini, they pursued their artistic studies in Milan, first at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and later at the Polytechnic, where they developed an interest in the relationships between the visual arts and the world of design, the stylistic hallmark of their production. Their works weave harmonious dialogues between art and design; planning merges with thoughtful and calibrated creativity in order to give new visions and suggest innovative ways of perceiving the reality that surrounds us. In their works they seek to give form to poetry through continuous research of a multifaceted nature.
Anna Rita Punzo, curator of the exhibition, writes of them: ‘Two is not the double but the opposite of one, of its solitude. Two is alliance, a double thread that is not broken. The passage, taken from a well-known poem by Campania author Erri De Luca, seems to translate into poetry the relationship that binds Daniela and Francesca Manca, sisters and artistic duo, united by an empathetic correspondence that goes beyond the confines of parental ties and manifests itself in a sensitive and rigorous poetics, apt to explore the creative and symbolic potential of nature through the filter of biographical and autobiographical narratives capable of conveying collective feelings and emotions. The production, the happy outcome of a harmonious blend of symbolism and creative design, evokes essential archetypal elements connected to the concept of nature as a matrix/shelter, and is revealed in shared practices repeated over time, pertinent to the domestic, intimate and family sphere, such as sewing, embroidery and working with the earth. The Manca’s research can therefore be inserted along the furrow traced by Giuseppe Penone’s words ‘A sharp division between human and nature is a vision forced from reality’ and returns complex works, to which a dense emotional component fuelled by personal events is subtended’.
Alongside Daniela and Francesca Manca’s exhibition, the exhibition ‘Archeoplastics: incorruptible style‘, which opened on 11 May on the occasion of the opening of the 2024 Sustainable Development Festival as a preview of the museum’s exhibition season, will be open on 26 May. The exhibition includes a selection from the “Museum of Ancient Waste” of the “Archeoplastics” project and combines plastic material, aesthetic form and time to address the problem of the insidious durability of plastic objects. The objects on display were collected from Italian beaches and the ‘oldest’ ones date back to the 1960s: like a sort of carbon 14 dating – where the only (or almost only) temporal indicator becomes design – visitors will be able to take a close look at almost archaeological objects, witnesses of the insidious effects of pollution.
Discovering the age of the objects and their history will lead to the tangible and unexpected realisation of how long the half-life of plastics is and will force the visitor into a compulsory awareness, a different way of ascertaining one’s knowledge of waste, micro and macro plastics and generating responsible behaviour.
The exhibition is realised in collaboration with Archeoplastica and class 3 A Classics of the Liceo G. M. Dettori of Tempio, which took care of the set-up, as part of the project ‘Organica EDU: – knowledge, skills and competences between art and environment in the Limbara Park’ supported by the Fondazione di Sardegna.
The calendar of events of Spazio CEDAP is accompanied by a rich programme of activities within the Bosco di Curadureddu in which the Museum of Environmental Art of the Limbara Park is located. Between summer and autumn 2024, the three new site-specific works – by Alex Pinna, Antonello Fresu and the winner/winner of the national contest involving young artists from the Academies of Italy – will be inaugurated. They will be permanently installed in the Curadureddu Wood with the contribution of the FAI – I Luoghi del Cuore (Italian National Trust – The Places of the Heart ) with the project “Organica – Sentieri dell’arte“(Organics – Paths of Art). The works will be permanently inserted in the environmental context of the place respecting the natural equilibrium of the forest with a land art operation that puts the environment at the centre, conveying a message of sustainabilitỳ and respect.
At the same time as the realisation of each work, the programme includes a series of dedicated events, workshops and meetings with the artists, which will allow the public to get to know the project and its protagonists more closely; guided tours and cultural treks to discover the Museum and the specificities and naturalistic peculiarities of the Limbara Park in the company of art critics, naturalists and experts on flora and fauna.
Many side events, concerts, musical performances and creative workshops are scheduled in the forest, linked to regional and national music, art and territory festivals and circuits in collaboration with local artists and associations.
Many activities were carried out with organisations and associations in Northern Sardinia: the Civic School of Tempio, Aggius and Bortigiadas, the DECA Pro Master’s degree course at the University of Sassari, Colombre and the Bardunfula Festival, Sentieri contemporanei, and the OndeSonore International Guitar Festival.
In October, the Museo Organica adheres to the 20th Amaci Contemporary Day and the “Open CEAS” initiative on the occasion of the promotion day of the INFEAS network – Information, Training and Education for the Environment and Sustainability – which includes workshops for the dissemination of good environmental practices, including “Natural Screens”, a travelling drawing and installation workshop led by Marta Pala of Spazioperaria.
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.
Guided tours of the Museum of Environmental Art can be organised for small groups by appointment.
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 in collaboration with the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, the Foundation of Sardinia, the Region of Sardinia, FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Salude & Trigu, Fo.Re.S.T.A.S., the Italian Touring Club, the DECA Pro Master’s degree course at the University of Sassari, the Sassari ‘Mario Sironi’ Academy of Fine Arts, cultural associations and the partners Escursì.com, Confcommercio Nord Sardegna, Gallura Mia srl, Hotel Pausania Inn, La Baita Limbara.
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city: Tempio Pausania (SS)
location: Monte Limbara | locality Curadureddu / CEDAP – Centro di Educazione e Documentazione Ambientale e Paesaggistica del Limbara (SS 392 Tempio-Oschiri)
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