Samugheo, Renata Boero's “Journey to Sardinia”
The artist's works exhibited from 29 October at the Murats Museum
At the end of the month, a new exhibition will enrich the rooms of the Murats museum in Samugheo.
In fact, the exhibition “Journey to Sardinia” will be inaugurated on Saturday 29 October at 7 pm.
Created by the Municipality of Samugheo , the Murats Museum and the Foundation of Sardinia, it investigates the potential of natural dyes on canvas through the works of Renata Boero .
The Genoese artist began his career at a very young age and immediately attracted the attention of critics. Important art critics such as Filiberto Menna, Tommaso Trini, Achille Bonito Oliva and many others have followed her research with great enthusiasm and curiosity, consecrating Renata Boero among the most significant artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Recently his research has aroused renewed interest: sensitivity to materials, color and nature are the elements of his research that today are observed with great attention.
THE BIOGRAPHY - At the beginning of the Sixties Renata Boero devoted herself to the study of materials, starting an intense work of documentation on natural substances and on the symbolic aspects attributed to colors, through the reading in particular of De Rerum Natura by Lucretius and the Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder.
Over the years the artist focuses his research on the idea of overcoming art as a representation of reality, building his own modus operandi that interprets painting as an artistic gesture that does not portray nature, but conceptually reconstructs it. The works on display include some historical works belonging to the series of Chromograms and Chtoniographies, while others were created specifically for the exhibition, the result of a vision of Sardinia born after his trip / inspection to Samugheo.
THE WORKS - The Chromograms and Chtoniographies (made in the studio since 1965) are painted by immersing the support, paper or canvas, in infusions made with natural pigments, and then meticulously folded over themselves several times to form regular structures. They are thus "delivered" to the changes of time, which becomes co-author of the continuous and unpredictable transformation of the work. The same method was used for the realization of the works, unpublished and dedicated to the island, which can be seen in the exhibition and tell the vision that the artist had of the territory, of the natural elements, linked to an image that evokes uncorrupted models. , simple but complex at the same time as only the earth, as matter and concept, can be.
"A research that goes beyond time and with it is formed and transformed, accompanied by gestures linked to the almost hypnotic repetition of the plots given by the folds that themselves become an integral part of the works, assuming meanings of sacredness and symbolism to the same extent as the pigments extracts from herbs, roots and earths that give life to changing epiphanies ”, explain from Murats. The exhibition is part of the project “Fabrics and nature: potential of natural elements in the coloring of fabrics”.
