Among the museum spaces that will remain open in the city for Easter Sunday is also the Exma in via San Lucifero, open from 9 am to 1 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm, and which until May 4 offers the public an exhibition dedicated to the artistic history of the Arte Duchamp gallery in Cagliari, an undisputed cultural reference point for the visual arts of the post-war period in Sardinia between the 1970s and 1980s. Arte Duchamp 1973 | 1992 - history of an art gallery is conceived and curated by Caterina Ghisu, Noemi Migliavacca and Nicoletta Zonchello and retraces, through extensive documentation, the history of this very important hub, an exhibition space but also a place for presentations and conferences, which was a crossroads of meetings, as well as the headquarters of the periodical Arte Duchamp Notizie, directed by Gaetano Brundu and Tonino Casula, with contributions from, among others, Giulio Carlo Argan, Corrado Maltese, Mirella Bentivoglio, Salvatore Naitza, Gianni Murta and Silvano Tagliagambe.

The name chosen for the Gallery, inaugurated in 1973, comes from a play on words between the surname of its founder, Anouk Van de Velde, and that of the artist Marcel Duchamp, which in French means of the field as Van de Velte in Dutch. In 1979 the Arte Duchamp gallery became part of the Associazione Italiana Gallerie d'Arte Contemporanea, a national network of galleries, which allowed it to participate, in 1980, in special events such as Lucio Fontana. In the same year, the gallery opened a space dedicated to art publications by renowned publishers such as Franco Maria Ricci and Vanni Scheiwiller, joined by AD Arte Duchamp editions, which will produce essays and catalogues on Maria Lai, Costantino Nivola, Guido Strazza.

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