The programming of the Museum of Environmental Art Organica continues in the Limbara Park.
Until 31 July, two exhibitions dedicated to art and the environment: two solo exhibitions can be visited in the exhibition rooms of Spazio CEDAP:
“Visions call to an empty night” site-specific installation by Eleonora Desole and
‘Other Tracks’, photographic exhibition by Cédric Dasesson;
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 under the direction of Giannella Demuro, continue.
Until 31 July, two solo exhibitions can be visited in the halls of the Spazio CEDAP: for the contemporary art section, Visions Call to an Empty Night, a site-specific work by the young artist Eleonora Desole; for the section dedicated to the environment, the exhibition Other Traces by the photographer Cédric Dasesson.Both exhibitions are curated by Giannella Demuro.
In her first solo exhibition, the young Sassarese artist Eleonora Desole presents the unprecedented site-specific installation Le visioni chiamano ad una notte vuota. In a muffled space that cancels the physical boundaries of the exhibition hall, the artist arranges fragments of nature, images, sounds and emotions: a dark place interrupted at times by blades of uncertain light, concealing a forest where water flows silently and a mute wind stirs trees, branches and leaves. These are traces of a black and white nature that renews the perpetual cycle of life and death. The exhibition space thus becomes a dreamlike, twilight space, impalpable and with uncertain boundaries, inhabited by visions that recall ancient pagan rites. Fantastic forms suspended in the void, ethereal, evanescent and unreachable, zoomorphic fetishes sway slowly, in a void pregnant with expectation crossed by the intermittent buzz of the many indistinct but familiar voices that inhabit the night, punctuating the inexorable flow of time. Eleonora Desole transports the spectator into an imaginary and primordial space where the apparently empty darkness is dense with possibilities not yet expressed or not yet grasped: an invitation to mirror oneself in primordial nature to find within oneself the infinite traces of the universe”.
Eleonora Desole (1999) lives and works in Sassari. After graduating from the Sassari Academy of Fine Arts, she specialised in painting. Her research stems from a dialogue built through raw materials from nature and the use of multimedia techniques and media, which gives rise to unusual scenarios, places of the imagination capable of creating other dimensions. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including ‘Fuori Tutto!‘ in 2019 (Sassari, Spazio Chora) and ‘Habitat‘ in 2023 (Sassari, Palazzo Ducale). Also in 2023, in Tortolì, he took part in the second edition of ‘Contemporanea Talk’, a project promoted by the Fondazione di Sardegna.
The exhibition Altre tracce (Other traces), by Cagliari photographer Cédric Dasesson, tells – through the ordered seriality of images of various formats – the story of Sardinia and its people, the slow process of adaptation of man and nature in a place and space where the slow passage of time is measured by a series of intervals that can be read as lines of rupture, elements of change and transformation.
Starting from the traces of remote anthropisations scattered across the island by the Sardinian people, connoted in the collective imagination as identity – dolmens, menhirs, tafoni and fraicate hollows, domus de janas, nuraghi, temples, dry-stone walls and pinnacles – the author recounts with images, a rhythmically varied and complex temporal process, clear and objective evidence of man’s continuous forms of adaptation to the inevitable transformations of the territory.
Dasesson concentrates his gaze on the passage from the nomadic condition of life to the settled, stable, permanent condition, the one that leaves recognisable traces of anthropisation, of “domestication”, on places. Within these processes of adaptation, an almost constant presence is the rock, a symbol of strength, resistance and hostility but also a refuge, a home, a community gathering space, as in places of worship.
Dasesson’s photographic research explores the links between the elements, often flattened by a stereotyped reading, that connote the fundamental characteristics of the people and gathers their fundamental notions, offering a direct association between place and its use. Places thus become great containers of information, traditions, mythological stories etched in stone and in part yet to be discovered. The process of adaptation reveals its reason for survival, a symbol of purposeful choices of life in total symbiosis with the territory, a symbol of stubbornness and perseverance in the will to live conditions often dictated by nature.
Cédric Dasesson (Cagliari, 1984) is a photographer who develops a predilection for studying the territory and the contemporary landscape. He uses photography as a means of research, identifying a path of analysis and reading of space, reading changes in the territory and sensitising the places he observes. His works have been shown in international exhibitions and are present in institutional collections – MUFOCO (Italian Museum of Contemporary Photography), MiBACT, University of Cagliari, Biennale di Pisa, Falía*, Biennale dello Stretto – and private collections such as the Vuitton Foundation. He has developed a descriptive method of the coastal landscape by levels: underwater, from land and from the sky, realising together with Sardarch and the Coastal Conservatory of the Region of Sardinia, a photographic project on the mapping of the territory. Among his interests is the analysis of the urban and rural territory. In 2019, he is one of the ten artists selected by MUFOCO and MiBACT for the development of theAtlante Architettura Contemporanea with which “10 viaggi nell’architettura contemporanea” is publishedand exhibited at the Milan Triennale and in Rome, at the Museo Nazionale Romano. He realises projects to identify the built environment through the Falia* artist residency. He collaborates with the Faculty of Architecture in Cagliari and with Sardarch. His main publications are Level (2017), Di notte il mare non dorme mai (2018), Costellazioni (2020) and Oltreterra (2023).
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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 with the artistic direction of 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 Academy of Fine Arts ‘Mario Sironi’, 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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