Press release 26.09.2025
Sunday 28 September at 11 a.m.
the Museum of Organic Environmental Art opens its autumn season with :
– At Spazio CEDAP the exhibition ‘Starwatching‘ by Valentina Daga, accessible to blind and visually impaired people;
– Toni Demuro ‘s Like a leaf exhibition extended until 5 November
– Three new permanent site-specific works in the Bosco di Curadureddu;
The Organica Museum of Environmental Art, in the heart of the Limbara Park, opens its autumn calendar with a special day dedicated to contemporary art and dialogue with nature.
The day of Sunday 28 September will begin at 11 a.m. at the entrance of the Bosco di Curadureddu with the presentation of the new cycle of site-specific interventions installed among the clearings and the Mediterranean maquis: the works of Giusy Calia and Antonello Fresu, Marcello Cinque, and Igino Panzino will enrich the open-air pathway, consolidating the identity of the Museum as a place for artistic experimentation immersed in nature. Walking up the path to the Museum’s exhibition rooms, the artists will illustrate the installations of the Museo Organica, before arriving at the Spazio CEDAP, where Valentina Daga ‘s new solo exhibition ‘Starwatching’ will be presented. The exhibition of illustrator Toni Demuro ‘Like a leaf’ will be extended until 5 November.
Exhibitions
At Spazio CEDAP, for the contemporary art section, an appointment with Starwatching, a new personal exhibition by Valentina Daga curated by Giannella Demuro.
Valentina Daga’s artistic research stems from the urge to explore the body and its possibilities of relating to space, emotions and sensory perception. The work is never just an object, but a living body that meets the spectator’s, in a place that is at once physical, mental, perceptive and environmental.
In recent years, the artist has developed a special interest in the accessibility of art to the blind and visually impaired, opening up a field of experimentation in which touch and sight meet and contaminate each other. A commitment recognised by the UICI – Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, which awarded her a special mention, and by the Luxembourg Art Prize 2022, which awarded her a certificate of artistic merit.
The exhibition designed for Organica is entitled ‘Starwatching’, and carries within it a poetic and radical idea: to make the immensity of the universe perceptible through the hands. Celestial maps and constellations become paintings and sculptures to be explored tactilely, engraved surfaces, reliefs and textures that render the depth of cosmic space in concrete signs, accessible to all.
In this project, stargazing – an experience traditionally entrusted exclusively to sight – opens up to an inclusive and multisensory dimension. The artist transcribes fragments of the universe on paper and canvas, transforming the infinitely distant into physical proximity, to be caressed and felt. The creative gesture thus becomes an act of sharing: a new possibility of encounter between art, science and community, where the beauty of the cosmos is revealed in the work’s capacity to be perceived, imagined and internalised by everyone, beyond sensory limits.
Starwatching invites every spectator, sighted or blind, to discover a sky made not only of light but also of matter, not only of distance but also of contact. A sky that affects us all, and which reminds us how art, when it is truly accessible, can become a universal experience.
Valentina Daga (Sassari, 1978) lives between Sassari and Turin. She studied painting at the “Mario Sironi” Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where she graduated in 2016. From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the Aliment(e)azione collective, active in the field of public and relational art. In 2011 she held her first solo exhibition in Turin, curated by Olga Gambari, selected among the participants in the national Autofocus2 competition. In 2016 she won the Arte in Biblioteca competition, a work for the art collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome, with public acquisition of the winning work. In 2016-2017 he participated in the animation and editing of the feature film “NYsferatu” by Andrea Mastrovito. In 2019, he won the Special Award of the Inter-Youth Painting Exhibition of the School of Painting of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (PRC). Exhibitions include: Inter-Youth. International Youth Art Exhibition/Carrying Basement, at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (PRC, 2018); Stanze di carta, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome (2017); Passaggi, at the Museo della Permanente in Milan (2016); Ex voto, at the Loom Gallery in Milan (2016).
In the ground floor room of the museum, artist Toni Demuro ‘s solo exhibition ‘Like a leaf‘ has been extended. His images tell of 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. The 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, lunar and solar 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 […]. Reminding us that the landscape concerns us, that time can be deep breath, that solitude can be habitable: this 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 with a peculiar graphic sensibility. His work stands out for its ability to convey emotion and imagination with lightness and, at the same time, depth.
The new works in the forest
The open-air route of the Museo Organica is enriched with three new installations along the open-air route of the Museo Organica, created in 2021, site-specific works by Marcello Cinque, Giusy Calia and Antonello Fresu, and Igino Panzino.
The artist Marcello Cinque presents the site-specific installation Nuovi equilibri. Taking its cue from the column – an architectural element, but also a symbolic one – the work is articulated in a series of modules, to generate new proportions and possibilities of cohabitation, recomposing, in fact, new balances. The column, decomposed and recomposed, loses the uniqueness of its vertical axis to transform itself into a dynamic whole, where the parts dialogue with each other, creating new harmonies. In this metamorphosis, the work becomes a reflection on our present: the search for new collective balances, capable of holding together differences and plurality, returning to the community a sign that unites memory and contemporaneity.
The works of the artistic association formed by Giusy Calia and Antonello Fresu, together with the work of Igino Panzino are part of the ‘Acquamontana’ trail, the new path that runs for about 6 km on the Limbara peaks, starting from the suggestive sequoia forest of Valliciola and arriving at the Limbara Pass and from there to the Museo Organica, weaving through forests, granite rocks, springs and natural pools, inaugurated last Sunday, 21 September. Giusy Calia and Antonello Fresu present the work In ascolto del cielo (Listening to the sky), a reproduction of an aerophone that transforms itself from a war machine into an instrument of contemplation, inviting one to listen to silence and question the invisible; with the work Potomoi , artist Igino Panzino makes two opposing presences – one artificial and one natural – dialogue, transforming the forest into a secular altar of the man-nature relationship.
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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)
INFO
cell. 339 5906900 | info@organicamuseo.it
www.organicamuseo.it
