MAN in Nuoro chronicles the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont from 1720 to the 20th century

From March 13 to June 14, 2020, the MAN Museum of Art in Nuoro presents the exhibition The Secret Kingdom. Sardinia-Piedmont: a postcolonial vision, curated by Luca Scarlini.

Three hundred years after the arrival of the House of Savoy in Cagliari, the exhibition is an unprecedented project based on a wide-ranging and articulate historiographic and cultural investigation that recounts the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont from the 1720s to the 1960s.
The cultural relationship is evidenced by works of art, documents, artifacts, literary texts, illustrations, ceramics, photographs, and musical scores from prestigious Italian institutions.

Through a postcolonial perspective, the exhibition will illustrate the mutual influence between the two regions, also revealing a previously unseen face of the Kingdom of Sardinia, rich in still little-known stories and prolific encounters.
A relationship that began in 1720, when Sardinia became Savoyard, and from then on, cultural exchanges intensified more and more, profoundly changing the destiny of Sardinia and Piedmont.

“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, nor theses to be proved. In the halls of the MAN in Nuoro, the spectacle of a place that is real and imaginary at the same time is staged, whose maps 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,” said the curator.

The exhibition will be complemented by a section devoted toanimation, curated by Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, which, in collaboration with MAN, has developed four experimental formats of animated shorts on Sardinian illustrators active in Piedmont in the 20th century.

For info: www.museoman.it

Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 5 euros, reduced for 18-25 year olds 3 euros. Free for under 18.

Pictured, Vittorio Accornero for Gucci, Italian Costume Scarf (1960s, silk, 87 x 87 cm) Courtesy Federico Spano

MAN in Nuoro chronicles the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont from 1720 to the 20th century

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