On Sunday 22 September at 11 a.m., the Museum of Organic Environmental Art celebrates
7th National Day of Small Museums with the vernissage of two new exhibitions.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth” by Antonella Spanu
and “Costantino Brundu: percorsi di un naturalista”
can be visited until 6 November at the Spazio CEDAP in the Bosco di Curadureddu.
In the afternoon, starting at 3 p.m., the Bardunfula Fé will stop at
Organica Museum with workshops, games and stories for children.
The Organica Museum of Environmental Art will join the 7th National Day of Small Museums on Sunday 22 September with the inauguration of two new exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art and photography. The day, promoted by the National Association of Small Museums, is a precious opportunity to come into contact with contemporary visual arts and the splendid Limbara territory, in which the Museum of Environmental Art of Tempio Pausania is immersed.
The rooms of Spazio CEDAP will host on Sunday 22 September at 11 a.m. the inauguration of the two new exhibitions that will accompany the museum’s programming until 6 November. For the contemporary art section, the appointment is with There are more things in Heaven and Earth, the new project by the artist Antonella Spanu curated by Mariolina Cosseddu, while the photography section will host the documentary photography exhibition ‘Costantino Brundu: percorsi di un naturalista’ (Costantino Brundu: paths of a naturalist) curated by the journalist Giovanni Gelsomino.
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.
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 education.
The exhibition Costantino Brundu : paths of a naturalist is dedicated to Costantino Brundu, a Tempio scholar bound by a relationship of deep passion to his land. For many years a teacher of literature at the Technical Institute of Tempio, Costantino Brundu was a great connoisseur of the territory, a convinced environmentalist and an active interlocutor with the institutions in charge of environmental protection. A multifaceted artist, a free man, courageous in his defence of the territory, he fought many battles for the defence of Sardinia’s environmental heritage with conviction and firmness. The places represented in the exhibition dedicated to him by the Museo Organica focus on Monte Limbara, the granite giant of Gallura, one of the island’s most evocative natural and human landscapes. The images on display, together with excerpts from the unpublished texts of a guidebook he wrote but never published, tell of 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, and the rush of crystal-clear spring waters.
Costantino Brundu (Perfugas, 1932 – Tempio Pausania, 2016). After a childhood and adolescence marked by the hardships of the war and spent among various religious institutes in northern Italy, between Turin, Venice and other cities, he graduated in pedagogy in Rome where he began his teaching career. His professional career began as an elementary school teacher, but he soon made his way into the world of higher education. For many years, he was a teacher of literature at the Pes Technical Institute. Passionate about archaeology, history, photography, nature and respect for the environment, he has authored important publications on the history of Tempio and the territory. A great connoisseur of the Limbara and its trails, he has carried out significant publishing activities. He has collaborated with the Sechi Foundation, also dealing with Gallura poetry and literature. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Ute di Tempio, for which he has overseen archaeological initiatives for many years.
On the afternoon of 22 September, from 3 to 5 p.m., the Museo Organica will host for the first time a stage of ‘Bardunfula Fe‘, the intergenerational festival created in 2019 to connect literature, places and people, now in its fifth edition. Readings, storytelling, play and the ability to tell and invent will be the ingredients of the “Curiosape” workshop, dedicated to girls and boys aged 6 to 10. Starting from Maria Lai’s art book, the young participants will be involved in the preparation of a playful scenic dramatisation: set design, costumes, acting, and sound. At the end of the workshop, the story of Curiosape will be staged, in a playful way to make the newest generations reflect on the sense of togetherness, rules and living together, and on the many varied talents that build a community.
Limited places. For info and reservations: 347 2570908 (Laura)
On the occasion of the 7th National Day of Small Museums, each visitor will be given a publication on contemporary art in Sardinia.
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 woods.
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 ‘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.
city: Tempio Pausania (SS)
location: Monte Limbara | locality Curadureddu / CEDAP – Centre for Environmental and Landscape Education and Documentation (SS 392 Tempio-Oschiri)
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