Nuoro's MAN goes all out between art architecture, photography and weaving

Starting March 3, the MAN in Nuoro goes four ways: four projects, including art, architecture, photography and weaving, for four floors of visits.

Through June 25, 2023

ODESSA STEPS. The Potëmkin Staircase between cinema and architecture, curated by Giovanni Francesco Tuzzolino and Federico Crimi in collaboration with Polo Territoriale Universitario di Agrigento - University of Palermo, National University Lviv Polytechnic, State Archives of the Odessa Region

A never-before-seen exhibition dedicated to the history and myth of the Odessa staircase, renamed by popular culture the “Potëmkin Staircase” following the fortunes of Sergei Michajlovič Ä–jzenštejn’s celebrated 1925 film The Battleship Potëmkin. The original design of the staircase, a monumental hinge linking the sea and the city, was signed in the 1830s by architect Francesco Carlo Boffo (1796-1867), whose biography remained shrouded in mystery for decades, hovering between an oral tradition that linked him to Sardinia and new documentary pieces that the exhibition reveals along the way, thanks to recent archival discoveries.

Through June 25, 2023

Olivo Barbieri. Twelve ee h s nine. Dolmens and Menhirs in Sardinia, curated by Marco Delogu and Chiara Gatti.
A project of the Fondazione di Sardegna | as part of AR/S - Shared Art in Sardinia.

Olivo Barbieri was invited by the Fondazione di Sardegna to turn his gaze to the island, to undertake three journeys over two years, deciphering a space-time bubble between archaeology and contemporary imagination. The object of the research is the heritage composed of numerous megaliths, dolmens and menhirs scattered over the island, according to logics still unclear to scholars, observed in their ability to modify the space that surrounds them. Barbieri, who had already traveled to Brittany and Carnac in the 1980s, attracted by these megalithic monuments, the mystery of their genesis and function, albeit years late and with a certain sense of guilt for having waited so long, arrives in Sardinia to approach an equally unique heritage, little publicized, even for many almost unknown.

Until April 15, 2023

Massimo Grimaldi. Fading In
With a text by Luca Cerizza, coordination by Elisabetta Masala

The first appointment in Project Room features a selection of photographic reportages made between 2010 and 2021. Grimaldi’s poetics develops in constant tension between ethics and aesthetics. The artist has developed a way of working that involves systematic collaboration with EMERGENCY, a humanitarian association founded with the aim of offering free medical support to civilian victims of wars and poverty. Since 2007, the artist has participated in competitions with projects that included, in case of winning, donating the sum to EMERGENCY and making reportages in places where the NGO is active. The most striking case dates back to 2009, when Grimaldi won the MAXXI 2per100 competition with a project that stipulated donating 92 percent of the €700,000 prize to EMERGENCY for the construction of the Pediatric Center in Port Sudan and documenting the hospital’s activities, from its construction to full operation. An approach that testifies to how Grimaldi reflects on and intervenes in society, rethinking the role of the artist.

Through June 25, 2023

PRATHA STUDIO. Plots and geometries
coordination by Rita Moro

Studio Pratha is an experimental creative forge born in 2017 from an intuition of Graziella Carta, founder and creative director of the group. Welcoming inspirations from visionary designers and eclectic artists, Pratha reinterprets in a contemporary key a weaving technique with a thousand-year history, now practiced only in the village of Sarule. The execution phase of the tapestries remains anchored in the heart of Barbagia, where the master weavers create Pratha works using Sardinian sheep’s wool and working on the traditional vertical, totally manual loom. Instead, the creative phase crosses island and national borders, opening up to collaborations that bring Pratha tapestries to international museums and galleries. While ranging between various styles and inspirations, the works move in the dimension of abstractionism, but there is no shortage of experimentation in the figurative sphere, including the recent tribute to Guernica, Weaving Peace, born out of a collaboration with the MAN Museum. Today on Studio Pratha looms design and high craftsmanship are woven together, in a continuous experimentation that fits right into the contemporary art scene.

For info: museoman.it

Image: Studio Pratha

Nuoro's MAN goes all out between art architecture, photography and weaving

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