"It was a forest", the works of Pinuccio Sciola on display in Cagliari

Pinuccio Sciola. It was a forest ” is the title of the exhibition inaugurated at the MUACC - University Museum of Contemporary Arts and Cultures of Cagliari .

The exhibition, open until 28 July, presents the works relating to a single and specific project, dedicated by Sciola to the theme of deforestation and the destruction of forests, characterized by a strong environmental footprint.

At the presentation Tomaso and Maria Sciola (sons of the artist, respectively vice-president and general director of the Pinuccio Sciola Foundation), the vice-rector of the University of Cagliari Gianni Fenu, the scientific director of the MUACC Rita Pamela Ladogana and the curator of the MUACC Simona Campus.

This is how the commitment of the University museum of the Sardinian capital continues, in line with its mission devoted to the contemporary, to explore the fundamental themes of our present.

THE PROJECT – After the first exhibition dedicated to Franca Sonnino, thanks to which reflections and research relating to gender issues have been activated, with the new exhibition project attention is focused on the climate emergency , through the point of view and sensitivity of an artist, authoritative on the international contemporary scene, who more than any other in Sardinia, between the 20th and 21st centuries, investigated the relationship between art and nature in a constant, original and poetic way.

The exhibition, the result of the collaboration between the Pinuccio Sciola Foundation and the MUACC, falls within the scope of the initiatives promoted by the Foundation itself on the occasion of the Sant'Arte Festival, now in its sixth edition.

«The relationship with the University of Cagliari has been going on over the years - said Tomaso Sciola - The Foundation carries forward the artist's ideas, which are still current and are often taken for granted: think of the concern for war in progress, which seems so distant to us, or the respect for nature so well represented in this exhibition. In these halls there is a strong message that has come back to life these days: nature must always be protected. With this exhibition we want to remind everyone to respect nature: if we are not careful, the future will not be beautiful ».

It is "an important opportunity for synergy - said the museum's scientific coordinator Rita Pamela Ladogana - aimed at strengthening the network of collaborations and partnerships between cultural realities operating in the area , in a network logic and in a perspective of sharing the knowledge".

The exhibition, explains Simona Campus, curator of the MUACC, focuses on the project «of a park-museum, conceived at the end of the last millennium - when deforestation and fires in the Amazon forest made the wounds inflicted on the our planet - configuring itself as an expression and synthesis of the deep environmental and environmental sensitivity that has always been a fundamental premise of the artist's research. Of the project - unfortunately never realized - dozens of drawings, photographs, photomontages and notes remain which for the first time are now on display in this exhibition . The arrangement of the design materials underlines the master's working method, based on the continuous, sometimes almost obsessive reworking of ideas and images. Each sheet is unique, bears a sign, an intervention that differentiates it from all the others: infinite variations on the theme, which bear witness to a tireless creative vein, the constant development of research conducted with rare coherence in the horizon of a symbiotic relationship and inseparable between art and nature».

(Unioneonline/vl)