The expansion of the twentieth-century collection of the Pinacoteca in Piazza Santa Caterina continues. After the sculptures by Costantino Nivola, here are two multi-material works by Maria Lai entitled "Landscape" (made in 1964) and Cornice, made in 1968.
The works will be presented on Wednesday 9 August at 7 pm in the new installation dedicated to the artists created in the halls of the National Pinacoteca of Sassari by the regional director of the Museums of Sardinia, Francesco Muscolino, and the director of the Pinacoteca, Maria Paola Dettori. Admission is free.
Perhaps less known than the more usual Looms and Geographies, but often present in scientific publications dedicated to Maria Lai, the two new arrivals are fundamental works in the artist's creative career and bear witness to one of the most virtuous periods of her activity in the 1960s. A continuous research which was followed by his adherence to the poetics of Arte Povera, with the inclusion in the work of "found objects" such as straw, cork, wire mesh and feathers. An innovative and almost revolutionary artistic result with the progressive abandonment of the traditional two-dimensionality of the picture, the exploration of space and the giving of volume to the wall works with the Frame that becomes a work of art.
