The MAN is pleased to announce the ‘ opening of the exhibition “ Feminas ”, a journey into pictorial production in Sardinia in first fifty ‘ years of the 20th century through a selection of forty works from the museum collection dedicated to the iconographic theme of women.

The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Municipality and the Pro Loco of Bosa , is proposed as itinerant format , ambassador of the MAN collection outside the museum walls. The venue chosen for this occasion is the suggestive one Palazzo Don Carlo, from the name of its builder, Don Carlo Passino Cugia who, in the mid-19th century, merged some pre-existing eighteenth-century houses by building a monumental staircase with two flights resting on trachyte pillars. The recent conservative restoration of part of the first floor by the Chelo family has made it possible to use the space for exhibition purposes.

Of the four sections of the exhibition, the first two focus on female iconography linked to tradition and, through the works of some of the main Sardinian masters of the first half of the twentieth century (from Antonio Ballero to Mario Delitala, from Francesco Ciusa to Carmelo Floris), reconstruct a choir of silent women, closed in the elegance of traditional dresses, often represented absorbed in the religious rituals of the procession.

This group is followed, thanks to the greater freedom offered by the decorative arts in the research of Edina Altara, of the brothers Federico and Melkiorre Melis and of Tona Scano, the portrait of a female figure in which the canonical stateliness is animated by brighter tones, which illuminate the gaze, mischievously coloring attitudes and clothes.

The third section of the exhibition tells the iconography beyond the costume and shows the female figure outside the code of the island tradition, in “civilian” clothes, in the privacy of the home and in social events, thanks to the works of Francesca Devoto, Bernardino Palazzi and Salvatore Fancello .

At the end of the itinerary, a tribute to two great innovators of the languages ​​of Sardinian art, Costantino Nivola , who with his works on the Great Mothers was able to capture the essence of the island’s matriarchal society, and Maria Lai , currently the protagonist of an important retrospective at the MAN museum in Nuoro and at the Civic Museums of Cagliari.

MAP_Palazzo Don Carlo

Corso Vittorio Emanuele 71
08013 Bosa (Or)
Opening hours 11-13 / 17-20.30 / 21.30 -24
Tel. 0785 377043

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