Infosphere_ workshop between art and architecture

in collaboration with

University of Cagliari

University of Palermo_Territorial University Center of Agrigento

with the participation of DADU – UNISS

workshop 9-12 May, MAN project room

exhibition inauguration Friday 12 May at 12.30

After the experience of the artist residencies, shared between the MAN and the Monte Verità in Ascona, the museum inaugurates a second active and interactive presence on the territory, thanks to the workshop Infosphere, dedicated to a creative and productive dialogue between artists and architects with a view to reading the landscape and its new narrative.

The MAN wants to interpret its role of regional centrality for contemporary art, positioning itself as hub , point of cultural exchange for the social context of reference. The values ​​that the museum preserves and promotes can become a dynamic heritage with which to interpret the history of the place, the aesthetic potential and its memory. A tangible and intangible heritage to which a prospective vision can be given for the community. In this sense we intend to start a permanent laboratory of artistic action, capable of attracting (with a centripetal tension) all the signs and meanings scattered throughout the territory, to carry out constant reconnaissance and, above all, to attempt the elaboration of a different account of the context. The artistic experience, recognized or hidden in small towns, the important archaeological evidence, the fragments of natural landscape and that compromised by the industrial use of the land, the historical architecture (the system of religious architecture) or non-authorial, the literary forms or expressions of any kind, all this can create a reservoir of entropic cultural energy. A Infosphere, that is, a compendium of information available for synaesthetic intellectual and artistic deconstruction and recomposition.

The laboratory managed by MAN in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and the University Center of Agrigento, it includes a week of team work, an exchange, a close dialogue, a group reflection and ideation, between artists, architects and photographers, committed to discussing, through different languages, on a vision of the city of Nuoro and two urban situations of extraordinary interest, such as Piazza Satta and Solitude. The Workshop animated by visiting professors from architecture universities together with contemporary artists from the Italian scene will return, in the exhibition scheduled for the end of the week, an interdisciplinary narrative resulting from the pulsations of the territory in its trends, geometries, rhythms, counterpoints.

The works, including surveys, projects, drawings, maquettes, photographs, installations and actions, will together compose a first mapping of the context integrated between aesthetic vision and project intention.

An extra muros laboratory section will take place at Suni mines, basaltic front which overlooks the Temo valley at the center of a project by Leonardo Boscani which aims to distill along the historic centers of the island monoliths extracted from the mines with a very rare conformation, columnar basalts intended to draw a map of finds as a hinge, a continuous line of testimony and the protection of a geological heritage at risk.

The museum, by its nature, preserves and nourishes this memory. The stratified memory, as well as the memory of the present . Thus, within it, in a transversal and innovative way, these materials can constitute useful elements for the preparation of new stories of the territory.

The laboratory curated by MAN in collaboration with the University Center of Agrigento, with the University of Cagliari, and on the basis of the existing twinning with Monte Verità of Ascona, provides for the interaction of artists, architects and photographers, for a dialogue between languages and a virtuous exchange of visions. The Workshop animated by visiting professors chosen from the architecture degree courses, together with contemporary artists from the Italian scene, aims to bring together different disciplines on this reading of the landscape and also of the city itself, so that the synthesis of the arts returns a fluid and multidisciplinary, the recording of the pulsations of the territory in its movements, geometries, rhythms, counterpoints.

The works, including reliefs, projects, drawings, maquettes, photographs, installations and actions, will together compose a mapping of the integrated context between aesthetic vision and project intention. They will be at the center of a public program open to citizens and of an exhibition at the MAN and will form the first nucleus of a landscape archive destined to expand over time with other editions of the same workshop.

Protagonists

Giorgio Peghin_ Architect, PhD, Full Professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at the University of Cagliari, member of the Doctorate Board in Civil Engineering and Architecture and director of the Master in Landscape Architecture at the University of Cagliari.

Gianfranco Tuzzolino _ Architect, PhD, Full Professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at the University of Palermo. He is president of the Territorial University Center of Agrigento and coordinates the Master’s degree in Islamic Architecture in Mediterranean cities.

Marco Introini _Professor of techniques for the representation of space at the Polytechnic of Milan and of architectural photography at the Bauer photography school.

Alfredo Casali_ Artist based in Piacenza. After various artistic experiences between painting, visual poetry and philosophical studies (under the guidance of Luciano Anceschi) he arrives at a language based on archetypal elements recurring within real cycles.

Leonardo Boscani_ Artist trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Sassari; his research has been aimed, since the 1990s, at analyzing the social and political-economic contradictions of Western society, to which he opposes science fiction utopias, in which criticism and irony are balanced in the creation of a new linguistic world”.

Patrizia Novello_ Milanese artist, active between Milan and London, works on the abstract transcription of visual data, the sedimentation of memory, the geography of everyday life, in a radical synthesis tinged with lyricism.

Marianna Ogana_ Sardinian artist, active between Nuoro and Sassari, works on the material and immaterial phenomena that determine the inhabited, corporeal and metaphysical space.

Roberto Sanna_ Architect PhD. His field of research is landscape modifications and its prefiguration tools.

Emanuele Richiusa _PhD student of the PASAP_Med Doctoral Course at the “Aldo Moro” University of Bari.

Workshop program

Tuesday 9 May – laboratory in Piazza Satta, inspection of the Church of the Madonna della Solitudine, round table, presentation of Leonardo Boscani’s project: Project on the protection of the black stone of Suni – Columnar Basalts.

Wednesday 10 May – inspection of the mines of Suni, La Planargia, a volcanic plateau on the edge of which the towns of Flussio, Magomadas, Modolo, Tinnura and Suni are located. Workshop at MAN open to the public and students; meeting with professors Samanta Bartocci, DADU – UNISS, Laura Pujia, DADU – UNISS, Lino Cabras, DADU – UNISS_on the topic of urban space, art, architecture.

Thursday 11 May – Workshop at MAN, laboratory and setup.

Friday 12 May at 12.30pm – Inauguration of the exhibition and presentation of the works. Aperitif.

The exhibition will remain on display until June 25th.