The first artistic works of the sculptor Aldo Contini (Sassari, 1924) were born from the dialectical relationship of art with the post-war island reality, still linked to the figurative tradition, in the mid-1950s, and conceived as the artist’s social commitment. This extreme attention to an art capable of making current contents and needs its own, has led Contini, since 1959, to dedicate himself to the activity of designer at the ISOLA (Sardinian Institute for Artisan Work Organization), where he works alongside Eugenio Tavolara in the design of the Sardinian craftsmanship of iron, ceramics, wood, etc. In 1963 he left ISLAND and began a teaching career as a teacher at the Art Institute of Sassari, which would keep him busy until 1989.

Meanwhile, in 1965, with his membership of the “Group A” gathered around Mauro Manca, his artistic research moved into the field of neo-avant-garde and pop painting, abandoned in the mid-Seventies for the conceptualism that characterized the period in which he founded the ” Rose Group”. From 1983 to 1986 he became scientific coordinator of the Department of Design for Crafts of the European Institute of Design in Cagliari. Having also exhausted the conceptual phase, at the end of the 1980s Aldo Contini’s pictorial experimentation arrived at a geometric abstractionism which characterizes his most recent works, such as Stained glass windows hey Altarpieces . The latter, in a game and chromatic contrast between red stars and gold shapes, draw the personal dialogue of Aldo Contini at his first solo show at the Museum