From the "parallel image" of Carlo Battaglia from Maddalena, to the synchronicity of Pino Manos from Sassari. From the marble yet surprisingly warm sculptures of the Orani sculptor Costantino Nivola to the multi-material works of the Ulassai artist Maria Lai. The section that the National Art Gallery of Sassari dedicates to contemporary art is starting to become important, thus expanding a collection that dates back to the Middle Ages .
Meritorious action by the director Maria Paola Dettori who also wants to give space to Sardinian art from the second half of the twentieth century , objectively little known on the island.
In recent months, two sculptures by Nivola, mother goddess and Builder, and two by Maria Lai, Landscape and Cornice, from the 1960s have been acquired. The latest arrival is "Spazio estroflexo rosso" by Pino Manos.
On Saturday, an attentive audience followed the presentation of the work donated by the widow Paola Porta Manos , who retraced the events of the artistic career and life of the artist from Sassari, capable of arousing the admiration of gallery owners in Paris, London and New York. A work that is simultaneously sculpture, architecture and painting. And which requires a non-distracted and fleeting vision, in order to reveal those infinite spaces that go beyond the spatialism of Fontana, known by Manos in Milan.
Synchronicity - according to Manos - is a state of being where space and time, empty and full, real and unreal, continuously change into their opposite.
