Press release 08.08.2025
On Sunday 10 August at 11 a.m., appointments with contemporary art continue at the Museum of Organic Environmental Art in the Limbara Park.
The exhibitions ‘Story of a tree’ by the Flatform collective and ‘Like a leaf’ by illustrator Toni Demuro inaugurate the new cycle of exhibitions that can be visited until 24 September. The Museum of Environmental Art Organica enters the summer calendar with two new exhibitions that will accompany the programme throughout August and end on 24 September.
The vegetal setting of the Bosco di Curadureddu forest is ready to welcome the public on Sunday 10 August at 11 a.m. at the Spazio CEDAP, with the vernissage of the solo exhibition ‘Storia di un albero‘ (History of a tree) by the Flatform collective curated by Giannella Demuro and Marco Senaldi. Also on show at the Museum, for the first time, the art of illustration with the works of visual artist Toni Demuro, collected in the solo exhibition ‘Like a leaf’ curated by Emiliano Longobardi.
Through the sophisticated use of audiovisual technologies, the Flatform collective carries out a reflection on the landscape and natural phenomena, often located in peripheral or marginal territories, themes that are as topical and urgent as ever today. At the Museo Organica Flatform presents “Storia di un Albero” (Story of a Tree), a video portrait of a non-human living organism, thinking but not conscious, unitary but multiple, and of the territory it inhabits. The tree at the centre of the work is an oak tree born around 900 years ago – also known as the ‘Oak of the Hundred Horsemen’ – and the place is the area of the town of Tricase, in Apulia. Through moving images and spatialised sounds, the plant organism becomes a perennial witness of the development of a place, of the stories that have passed through it over almost a thousand years, and of the cultures and languages that have succeeded one another and still coexist today. Subtitled in English, the film features dialogues in Arbaresh, Romanès, Griku, Byzantine Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Turkish, Spanish, French and Salentino. All the music, previously unreleased, was specially recorded for the film.
Flatform’s works are characterised by an extremely sophisticated aesthetic, the result of rigorous attention to each component of the audiovisual language: light, sound, image and movement. The technical precision and compositional balance are the result of a profound awareness of expressive means and an accurate post-production process, which gives each work a strong formal coherence. Inserted in a line of research that crosses experimental cinema and contemporary art practices, the collective’s production has been received at the most prestigious international festivals and major museum institutions worldwide. Curated by Giannella Demuro and Marco Senaldi.
Flatform is a collective artist born in 2006 and based in Milan (I) and Berlin (D), whose work lies somewhere between experimental cinema and contemporary art. Over the years, it has exhibited its work in prestigious museum institutions and international festivals. Major recent exhibitions include retrospectives at the Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2023), Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2023), MART (Rovereto, 2023), GAMeC (Bergamo, 2022), MSU Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, 2013) and EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam, 2018). The collective has also been invited by institutions such as the PAC in Milan, the MACRO in Rome, the ARGOS Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Their works have been hosted by the most important film festivals: the Cannes Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Viennale, the BFI London Film Festival and the New Zealand International Film Festival. Awards include prizes and nominations at the Go Short – European Short Film Festival, the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival and the Tiger Awards for Short Films.
In the ground floor room of Spazio CEDAP, the Museo Organica hosts for the first time an exhibition dedicated to illustration with ‘Like a leaf‘, a solo show by artist Toni Demuro. His images narrate a dreamlike universe of stylised forms, a rarefied world populated by natural organisms – trees, branches, leaves, flowers, butterflies and solitary human beings – illuminated by pale lights or brightened by opalescent nocturnal light. Curator Emiliano Longobardi writes about the exhibition: “There are natural spaces that are not just backgrounds, but active spaces: intertwining branches, curved woods, huge leaves as big as bodies, moon and sun circles that open up spaces within spaces, that become accesses to other places of light. And there are natural spaces that remain pure vegetal signs […]. Remembering that the landscape concerns us, that time can be deep breath, that solitude can be habitable: it is the measure of the balance between silence and restrained speech, between nature-personage and collected figures. Toni Demuro’s work offers a discreet passage between worlds and modes: to slow down, to observe, to recognise oneself as part of something that does not need to say itself explicitly or to speak loudly in order to be heard, but which continues to reverberate, finding its highest dimension in inner persistence”.
Toni Demuro is an Italian illustrator and visual artist, born in Sardinia in 1974. He graduated in Painting at the Sassari Academy of Fine Arts, developing a poetic and minimalist style, known for its dreamlike atmosphere, symbolic use of nature and refined colour palette.
His illustrations have accompanied editorial projects for major international clients such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Penguin Books, Vanity Fair, Corriere della Sera and Mondadori. In the publishing world, he has created book covers and illustrated books – especially for the French market – winning numerous awards.
Alongside his editorial work, he has designed numerous posters for jazz festivals, literary events and cultural gatherings, combining visual storytelling and a distinctive graphic sensibility. His work stands out for its ability to convey emotion and imagination with lightness and, at the same time, depth.
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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’
Mount Limbara | loc. Curadureddu
CEDAP – Limbara Environmental and Landscape Education and Documentation Centre
(SS 392 Tempio-Oschiri)
Tempio Pausania (SS)
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