An exhibition at MAN in Nuoro on the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont, from the 18th to the 20th century

The MAN in Nuoro resumes its exhibition activities on May 29, 2020, opening to the public the exhibition The Secret Kingdom. Sardinia-Piedmont: a postcolonial vision, curated by Luca Scarlini. In compliance with all necessary measures for the health safety of the public and staff, the exhibition will be open until November 15, 2020.

The exhibition is presented as a broad and articulate historiographic and cultural survey of the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont, from the 1720s to the 1960s, through works of art, documents, artifacts, literary texts, illustrations, ceramics, photographs and musical scores, from prestigious Italian institutions. A section, curated by Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission in collaboration with MAN, will then be dedicated toanimation: four experimental formats of short animated films dedicated to Sardinian illustrators active in Piedmont in the 20th century will be presented.

Another objective of the review is to reveal an unseen face of the Kingdom of Sardinia: a secret kingdom, rich in stories, encounters, often narrated in polemical terms by Sardinian historiography and with numerous misunderstandings by Piedmontese historiography. The relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont began in 1720, when the island became Savoyard, and from then on cultural exchanges and transactions gradually intensified, leading to an era of great mobility of people, objects and ideas that profoundly changed the destiny of the two territories and would contribute to the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy and the development of a national culture. According to a postcolonial perspective, the exhibition itinerary illustrates the process of acculturation and mutual influence between Sardinia and Piedmont, arriving at the free reinvention of signs and styles protracted for more than two centuries.

“The exhibition explores, by means of artistic profiles, micro-stories, facts of custom, official events, political situations, biographical anecdotes, love and war stories, documents, illustrations, and often forgotten, or never clarified, links, the construction of a world of signs between Piedmont and Sardinia, without a preconceived vision or theses to be proved,” the curator declares, adding, “in the halls of the MAN in Nuoro the spectacle of a place that is real and imaginary at the same time is staged, the maps of which are provided, perhaps for the first time, in an organic way, reconstructing at the same time a capital episode, and still largely to be explored, of recent Italian history.”

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Image: Giovanni Michele Graneri, Nautical Feast in the Port of Cagliari (1747; Turin, Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico d’Arte Antica)

An exhibition at MAN in Nuoro on the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont, from the 18th to the 20th century

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