The Organica Museum opens its doors with two new exhibitions that can be visited until 28 September: the solo show Maps by the young artist Davide Mariani will be inaugurated today, in the spaces of the structure a few km from Tempio Pausania , curated by Giannella Demuro for the Art section contemporary, and L-ife by director Tore Manca , curated by Antonello Zanda for the Multimedia section.
Mariani is a walking artist, whose “act of walking” – an aesthetic hallmark that characterizes his research – is declined in the form of maps, paths, visual fragments, notes, performances, installations and personal objects that retain the traces of journeys undertaken in places and landscapes linked to his personal history, visible indications of a relationship with the territory which is at the same time profound intimate introspection. In Maps, the 25-year-old artist from Campidanese presents his experiential art which not only establishes an intense relationship with the natural environment but also allows the artist to retrace emotional paths, often known and habitual routes, and in any case never extraneous, to relive and touch through a immersive physical confrontation a strongly introspective and autobiographical territory.
In L-ife , however, Manca presents a large multimedia installation which, as the curator Zanda, director of the Sardinian Cineteca explains, «is the result of a long research by the artist and filmmaker from Sassari, born from the need to communicate a creative tension and introspective that rests on an existential idea of nature». The director's gaze lingers on a material that exists on an invisible and microscopic plane, catching knots, elementary lumps in the reticular structure of the hyphae, unicellular and multicellular filaments that settle in a space between visible and invisible. Extracted from their neural network, Manca returns them to their suspended vitality, still and throbbing together in the installation experience created for the Museo Organica.
