In Nuoro, at the Ilisso space in via Brofferio, you can admire 70 works by Maria Lai , the artist from Ulassai who died in 2013 at the age of 94. An exhibition that traces 4 decades of the artist's research, included among the major artist-philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century: in his hands needle, thread, bread, terracotta, and poor everyday materials became art and poetry.
The exhibition was born from the collaboration between Spazio Ilisso, the Archive and the Maria Lai Foundation, the Ulassai Art Station and the Magazzino Italian Art Foundation in New York and the exhibition was designed by the architect Antonello Cuccu.
"This is a selective exhibition in which we have not considered the artist's youthful work but we started from the early 70s with multi-material works, coming from public and private collections that tell the greatness of the artist", explains Sebastiano Congiu, founder together with Vanna Fois of Ilisso Edizioni, on the occasion of the inauguration. "In the work of Maria Lai - adds the curator of the exhibition Elena Pontiggia - there are Sardinian elements and others that have no boundaries: we move from painting to invention poetics of sewing up to the use of non-traditional material for sculptures, such as bread, for example, a symbol of life and death, when wheat ends up becoming food ".
To remember the artist, his niece Maria Sofia Pisu who is also president of her aunt's archive: "Maria travels the world also with our commitment so that more and more people can enjoy and learn from her art".
The exhibition can be visited until the end of November.
(Unioneonline / ss)
