On Monday 12 May at 10:30, in the Conference Room of the Fondazione di Sardegna, in via San Salvatore da Horta 2 in Cagliari, the eighth edition of the “Sant'Arte” Festival will be presented, an initiative born from an idea by Pinuccio Sciola and created by the Foundation that bears the artist's name.
The Festival will be held from May 23 to 25 in San Sperate, a large stage that welcomes visual and performing artists in dialogue with the community and the places where Sciola was born and lived, triggering the development of the socio-cultural project of the town Museum.
The press conference will present this year's theme and program in detail: the vice president of the Foundation Tomaso Sciola and the artistic director of the Festival, Andrea Granitzio, will participate. Also present will be the mayor of San Sperate, Fabrizio Madeddu, and the councilor for culture Fabio Madeddu.
Pinuccio Sciola (1942-2016), born into a peasant family in San Sperate (CA), travelled from a young age and met the great masters of the 20th century: Minguzzi, Kokoschka, Wotruba, Vedova and Marcuse.
Revolutionary and visionary, at the end of the 60s he began the socio-cultural process of transforming San Sperate into a Museum Town. In the 70s he met David Alfaro Siqueiros and in 1976 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1996 the intuition of the sounding stones, works of art from which Sciola reawakened the lithic memory, capable of playing and vibrating with a sweet caress.
Sciola's works have been exhibited and are still exhibited in the most prestigious cultural venues in Italy (Venice Biennale, BIAF Florence, Milan Triennale, Arte Sella Museum of Contemporary Art, Auditorium della Musica in Rome, Permanent Collection of the Quirinale in Rome) and abroad (Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Cuba and China).
Sciola is recognized as one of the main exponents of Sardinian art of the 20th century.
(Online Union)
