Jute cords coloured with the colours of myrtle and strawberry trees stretched around alien pines create monumental arbremagique with which Pietruccia Bassu spreads the scents of the Mediterranean maquis. The strings of the site-specific work hang the Limbara firs from the essence of Mediterranean scents. Through different artistic languages, Pietruccia Bassu pursues a research focused on the preservation of anthropological data and customs alongside a series of works on the alteration of the primary meaning of the objects being investigated.
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Pietruccia Bassu was born in Sassari in 1969 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in her city. The artist from Sassari belongs to that current that sees in contemporary art the possibility of preserving anthropological data, customs and memories of past generations, using art as an archive, a repository of traces. Bassu researches personal memories aimed at not dispersing the place of origin and its ritual symbols, using different expressive tendencies, from video to installation, and making use of objects with a high symbolic content that in her works take on new aesthetic and conceptual modes. She has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions in galleries and private public spaces in Sardinia and on the mainland, including Sassari, Cagliari, Alghero, Berchidda, Bologna, Trevi, Merano, San Lazzaro (BO) and Treviso.
