“The man, the artist, the collector”, the exhibition on Franco d'Aspro opens in Sinnai
The country celebrates the great artist
The anthological exhibition that the civic museum of Sinnai dedicates to the artist Franco d'Aspro will be inaugurated on Saturday 26 November , at 17:30. The museum houses the most important public collection of works by the artist Franco d'Aspro, acquired in February 2006. Starting from 2020, the d'Aspro collection has been the subject of an enhancement and study operation which has allowed to rationalize and restore readability to the exhibition itinerary of the works previously set up.
Stylistically, d'Aspro emerges from a verist poetics linked to plastic results close to the productions of the Neapolitan school from which he draws his artistic imprinting, but in his art emerge the marked propensity towards impressionism and an eclectic line, fluid and constantly change .
" Franco d'Aspro – The man, the artist, the collector ", as stated in a note from the organizers- is a study and in-depth study around the figure of this partially forgotten 20th century artist . The project intends to promote and re-evaluate the figure of d'Aspro through an anthology exhibition as an appendix to the permanent collection at the civic museum.
In fact, the exhibition will be a way to retrace the salient moments of his production through sculptures, drawings and documents from public and private collections.
Finally, a fundamental part of the project is the setting up for the first time ever of a selection of finds from the archaeological collection of Aspro , which remained for a long time in the deposits of the municipality, unpublished and the subject of a recent study.
The project is financed by the Sardinia Foundation with the free sponsorship of the Municipality of Sinnai, the Municipality of Cagliari, the Municipality of Elmas, the Municipality of Villamassargia, the Metropolitan City, the University Library of Cagliari.
Added to these is the scientific collaboration of Museia – laboratory of museum culture of the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa and Sardinia to do, which have taken care of the didactic apparatus and communication products for the exhibition.
The exhibition, curated by Valerio Deidda and Isabella Atzeni , will be open from 26 November to 26 February 2023 .
