There are more things in Heaven and Earth

Critique sheet

For the realisation of There are more things in Heaven and Earth, a site-specific installation conceived for the Museo Organica, Antonella Spanu has chosen drawing as the protagonist, which – as Mariolina Cosseddu writes in the critical text accompanying the exhibition – is the foundation of art history and lends itself to embodying the very origin of every project, the founding moment of thought that becomes concrete, the iconic principle of the idea translated into sensible forms. Spanu’s drawing is all this and something more: it aspires to present itself as a demonstration of a challenge to the world, as a performative action full of profound consequences. With a pencil in hand, in fact, one can embark on a journey into thought and consciousness, one can cross territories unknown to the visible, enter a world charged with poetic resonances and ideological intentions and always with a goal fixed like a mantra: to do a lot with a little. Indeed, to do as much as a single pencil allows, which means producing an unquantifiable system of images until that prodigious mine is exhausted. Thus, as in a diary of days, barely sketched forms and completed images, elaborating sketches and already finalised sketches come to life. The result is a carpet like a tapestry in fieri, a large illustrated book, a map of dreams and visions that the light stroke indicates with mastery and fluency for as many future dialogues with the dilemma Nature. Graphic episodes on which the eye lingers to grasp, from these visual notes, suggestions and motifs for broader turns of thought.

Biography

Antonella Spanu was born in Mogoro (OR) in 1974. After attending the Art Institute in Oristano, she continued her studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti ‘Mario Sironi’ in Sassari, graduating in painting. During these years he took part in several solo and group exhibitions. After her studies, she moved to Turin, where she continued her artistic research and worked as a restorer. In 2005, following her move to Barcelona, she began working in design and fashion and created the brand Disabitando.

Back in Sassari in 2006, she continued her research on the Disabitando project and collaborated with theatre companies on the creation of costumes. She also collaborates with public bodies and cultural associations working in the field of art didactics.

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