First of May between art and music
The Museo Organica inaugurates the 2025 season with exhibitions, installations and concerts in the woods.
Many proposals on the Limbara and in Tempio Pausania, in collaboration with local operators.
After the winter break, the Museo Organica reopens its doors with a preview of the 2025 exhibition season. The appointment is Thursday 1 May with a day of events between art and music dedicated to nature and the environment, realised in synergy with the Municipality of Tempio Pausania and the collaboration of artists and cultural and tourist operators in the area.
The activities will begin at 11 a.m. with the inauguration of the exhibitions curated by Giannella Demuro, director of the museum: Inventari, a personal exhibition by Igino Panzino, doyen of artistic research in Sardinia, the photographic exhibition Acquamontana, and Ri-trascrizioni, a collective writing project by Antonello Fresu.
Two concerts are scheduled to follow: in the morning the Duo Ellipsis and in the afternoon Acoustic Pollution.
Also open during the morning was a handmade candle corner with ‘Keras’ fragrances from Sardinia.
EXHIBITIONS
The rooms of Spazio CEDAP will host on Thursday 1 May at 11 a.m. a special preview of the Organica Museum’s 2025 exhibition season, with two exhibitions that can be visited until 28 May. For the contemporary art section, the appointment is with Inventari, apersonal exhibition by artist Igino Panzino curated by Giannella Demuro, while in the photography section it will be possible to visit the documentary photographic exhibition Acquamontana presenting a selection of the winning photos of the photography contest of the same name. There will also be Antonello Fresu’s participatory installation Ri-trascrizioni.
Preceded by an action of investigation and recuperation in the streets that have become the scene of encounters with a fragmented and marginal reality, Igino Panzino’s boxed works – brought together under the name Inventari (Inventories ) – lend themselves to infinite considerations and are arranged like a small semantic inventory. The kind Panzino has been used to since the 1980s. Only here, the finds are no longer the regular, orderly pieces of paper stapled together in a refined play of shadows, but unpredictable residues of humble and poor consistency, collected occasionally and becoming a concrete and tangible symbol of a reality unknown in its entirety. Just as the poet works on words and searches for their truest substance by stripping them of the superfluous, so the artist goes to the heart of things and intuits the secret they conceal. Thus, small, banal findings undergo an evident metamorphosis and are transformed into unusual talismans, into devices of heightened sense of composition that become a light, delicate, visual lyricism. At the heart of the plastic compositions, in three-dimensional structures of shifting planes, a fragment of the real is enclosed. Feathers, stones, shards, twigs, nets, torn papers become, in the compositional structure, symbolic signs of an intellectual wandering that meditates on what appears negligible, on the apparent uselessness of forms, on the discards of everyday life, in short, on what constitutes the essence of things once their original function has been exhausted. (Critical text by Mariolina Cosseddu.)
Igino Panzino, lives and works in Sassari. Here he studied at the Art Institute, under the direction of Mauro Manca, as a pupil of Aldo Contini, Paola Dessy, Gaetano Pinna and Giovanna Secchi. In the ideologised climate of the 1970s, he began his activity as an artist, which materialised in the first collective exhibition entitled ‘Geografia/4’, held in Rome at Sylvia Franchi’s Artivisive gallery, an investigation into peripheral artistic realities. At the end of the 1970s, he joined the Gruppo della Rosa, founded by Aldo Contini and with a strong conceptual imprint. The neo-constructivist language runs through his entire career, even in his more recent public works from the late 1990s onwards. Panzino has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad.
The Acquamontana photo exhibition presents a selection of the winning photos from the photography contest of the same name, taken by Silvana Azara, Maria Bianco, Annalisa Brundu, Alberto Fozzi, Roberto Latte, Simona Pes, Luca Sirigu and Giampietro Spanu, photographers and nature and mountain enthusiasts.
“Acquamontana” is an awareness-raising project on the theme of water dedicated to enhancing the network of springs on Mount Limbara known as “the water route”, an evocative 30-km route that reaches the countless springs dotting the slopes of the massif in the heart of Gallura. The CEAS Tempio, with the collaboration of the ‘Organica’ Museum, promoted the 1st edition of the photo contest with the aim of generating interest and raising public awareness on the precious role that water plays on the Island and, in particular, in the Tempio Pausania territory, stimulating people to actively experience the naturalistic context of the Limbara Park through the photographic gaze. The small rivulets of water that flow through the forest and the beautiful natural pools that lie a few steps from the museum will allow anyone who wishes to do so to participate in the initiative, thanks to a small printer made available to the public. The images, printed in real time, will remain on display as an integral part of the exhibition.
Starting on 1 May, the participatory installation Ri-transcrizioni by Antonello Fresu will be present at the Museo Organica.Ri-transcriptions are a series of site-specific installations/performances that aim to create a work through the participation of the public.The installation consists of a desk and an open book, next to which is placed another book, on whose blank pages the public is invited to transcribe by hand, faithfully and integrally, in sequence, the different paragraphs of the original book. A small mark after the last copied word indicates the end of a transcription, but also the starting point for the next ‘transcriber’. A third book collects signatures, comments and impressions of the ‘transcribers’. The final work is a book written ‘by hand’ by the many participants who take turns at the desk.
The book chosen by Antonello Fresu for 1 May isPope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato si’, a work on integral ecology in which concern for nature, fairness to the poor, commitment to society, but also joy and inner peace are inseparable: a new paradigm of justice, because nature is not a ‘mere frame’ of human life.
CONCERTS
After the opening of the exhibitions, at 12 noon, the Museo Organica will present an aperitif concert with the Duo Ellipsis. Active since 1994, the duo formed by Alberto Cesaraccio on oboe and Alessandro Deiana on guitar is a rarity on the Italian and international music scene. The duo forms the nucleus of the ensemble of the same name, born a few years later, which expands from the most varied chamber formations to the orchestra.
For the Museo Organica, the Duo Ellipsis presents a concert inspired by the 20th century repertoire, proposing an interesting journey from the slopes of Mount Ararat to Argentina, passing through Central Europe with music by Boutros, Kovats, Cesaraccio himself to arrive in early 20th century Buenos Aires.
The concert is realised in collaboration with the Ellipsis Association and the Civic School of Music of Tempio, Aggius and Bortigiadas.
In the afternoon, at 3.30 p.m., it will be the turn of Acoustic Pollution – with Marco Serra (voice and guitar) and Thomas Gordon (bass) – a musical project conceived by Fabio Casula, Thomas Gordon and Marco Serra, former members of the Riptiders. Acoustic Pollution is a true side-project that spans the sounds of international music from the late 20th century and early 2000s, revisiting them in an acoustic key and bringing them back to their essence.
Occasionally in a duo, they will add to the musical journey offered to the Museum’s audience some of the tracks contained within ‘Vol.1′, the Riptiders’ debut album.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Keras fragrances of Sardinia corner will be open with Davide Deiana’s handmade vegetable wax candles.
FOOD
At Vallicciola, on the Limbara mountain peaks, the La Baita Ristobar is open from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., and from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., for lunch, the Vallicciola Hotel Restaurant. There is a 10% discount at lunchtime for Museum visitors.
OPENINGS IN AND AROUND TEMPIO PAUSANIA
There are many cultural offers for 1 May in Tempio Pausania – just 7 km from the Organica Museum: the Historical Exhibition Museum ‘Diavoli Rossi – La Brigata Sassari nella Grande Guerra’ (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.). The exhibition – first inaugurated in Milan in 2001 and exhibited in 35 different cities between the peninsula and Sardinia – now has its permanent home in Tempio Pausania, in the Stazione Vecchia, precisely where the Infantry left from. The Historical Exhibition Museum is managed by the Sivelu Association of Tempio Pausania.
In the nearby Parco Grandi, it is possible to visit an impressive display of monumental sound stones and sculptures by the great sculptor from San Sperate Pinuccio Sciola, an undisputed protagonist of contemporary artistic research, a lively personality and great cultural mediator, testimonial of Sardinian culture in the world.
Less than 2 km from the town centre, it will be possible to visit (10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 3 p.m.-6 p.m.) the Nuraghe Majori, one of the most significant protohistoric monuments in Gallura and the archaeological pearl of Tempio Pausania. For sports and nature lovers, the Inclusive Park (from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. also the refreshment point) and the Fonti di Rinaggiu are also open.
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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 MIC, the Fondazione di Sardegna, the Region of Sardinia, the 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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Museum of environmental art in the Limbara Park ‘Organica’
Monte Limbara | loc. Curadureddu / CEDAP – Centro di Educazione e Documentazione Ambientale e Paesaggistica del Limbara (SS 392 Tempio-Oschiri) Tempio Pausania (SS)
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