Summer, time for art too. The National Art Gallery of Sassari in Piazza Santa Caterina is more lively than ever and this time turns the spotlight on contemporary art .
Specifically, the Sassari avant -garde, which in the last 15 years of the twentieth century gave a shock to the island's artistic movement, breaking the mold.
Accompanied by the action of three prestigious critics such as Marco Magnani, Gianni Murtas and Giuliana Altea, the first protagonists were joined, in the nineties, by new recruits.
We struggle to overthrow the prevailing and sloppy folklorism that clumsily continues to imitate, without really understanding it, the art of the early twentieth century.
The exhibition is titled “Back to the future. Artistic avant-garde in Sassari at the end of the twentieth century ” and will be inaugurated on Friday 22 July at 7pm. It will be open until 9 October.
It offers 37 works by twelve artists : Danilo Sini, Josephine Sassu, Pier Giovanni Deliperi, Giorgio Urgeghe, Pino Schintu, Pastorello, Leonardo Boscani, Marco Moretti, Aldo Tilocca, Pinella Marras, Gianni Nieddu and Giulia Sale.
Some of them will be present at the inauguration. The director of the Sardinian Museums Regional Directorate, Luana Toniolo and the director of the Pinacoteca, Maria Paola Dettori will speak.