The MAN Museum, in collaboration with the Municipality of Gavoi, presents, in the spaces of the Municipal Museum (Casa Lai), Reflected Eye , a work of Enrico Piras and Alessandro Sau born from reflection on the role of the work of art, its existence and legitimation and its relationship with the public.
The project, whose final outcome consists of two series of works – Egyptian Darkness by Enrico Piras, e Ways of Seeing by Alessandro Sau – was divided into two parts proposing a clear one separation between the intuitive, creative and formal moment of the work created (eye), and the reproduction and diffusion of its artistic value (reflection) through photographic documentation, a narrative filter between the works and the public. In the first phase it developed through a series of one-day two-person exhibitions , created in Sardinia in unconventional spaces linked to particular historical and architectural contexts: an artificial cave, one house of janas, a bunker, a fin , a mining village and a noble villa.
The chosen places become an active and fundamental part of the presentation, as well as the object of the exhibited works, they take on the role of scenario for the exhibitions in which the structural apparatus joins the works themselves, in a scenic construction in which lights, electric generators, projectors coexist and make their creation possible.
The exhibitions, set up and visited solely by the two artists, were characterized by the absence of an audience and a specific external curatorship: all aspects relating to the exhibition organization are in fact included in the artistic practice itself. In the second phase, you stay it tution through the photographic medium made it possible to convey its content by acting not only as a reproducer of the exhibited works, but also as a witness to a scenic reconstruction: the chosen places become an integral part of the documentation , carrying a strong narrative value.
Enrico Piras , artist and visual researcher, was born in Cagliari in 1987, where he lives and works. He graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari and obtained a master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Utrecht Graduate School of the Arts (NL).
Alessandro Sau lives and works in Cagliari where he was born in 1981. He studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and Art and Anthropology of the Sacred at the Brera Academy. He holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts at Transart institute (University of Plymouth).