Glo – Looking at your navel is the title of the first collaboration project between the Municipality of Nuoro and the MAN Museum. In the rooms of the former ASL building in Via N. Ferracciu, from 29 March to 17 July (first part) and then from 27 September to 5 February 2012 (second part) around a hundred artists from this city took turns proposing a selection of their most recent production, which is why we consider it the beginning of an investigation into the creative richness of Nuoro which could be extended to the Province and, in concentric circles, to the entire Region, making sure to record in Nuoro what again (with a happy play on words) it is produced by artists of different generations, from the oldest masters to the very young novices. This is the vocation of the project, built through a few pieces, rigorously displayed to compose a game of references and resonances that tell stories like aphorisms or haikus. The title of the event, ironically, invites us to observe ourselves with a certain lightness. The best position for thinking seemed to some to be one that allows you to look at your navel and meditate on that. This type of meditation is called “navel gazing”. But the navel, with its symbolism, is once again a conceptual choice: it contains within itself the meaning of the bond, of the origin but also represents the caesura capable of leaving a trace of itself, the cutting of the umbilical cord which seals the memory and indelibly the sign that builds our identity. The navel is linked to the central position in the human body which suggests a psychic, symbolic, geographical, temporal fulcrum: birth, the beginning and the end, becoming, a sort of ever-present mandala with all that it entails and derives from it . L’ omphalon Greek identifies not so much a fixed point but a process that is activated from this point. It is the scar of physical birth, the tangible sign of a bond with the biological mother, it is linked to eros, to aesthetics but also to vulnerability due to its being in the most exposed and soft position of the abdomen. It represents the mystery of the relationship that binds us in generation and across generations. The severed bond must continually be cut and sutured, as the only possibility for growth. A bond that builds our identity, but also establishes the one with existence.

Second part

• 27.09 – 09.10.2011: Michela Balloi, Pasquale Bassu, Efisio Cardia, Laura Manca, Salvatore Marras, Francesco Melis, Piero Pais, Francesco Rais, Graziano Rocchigiani.
• 11.10 – 23.10.2011: Tarcisio Balloi, Fabrizio Bruno, Giancarlo Crisponi, Toni Marcovecchio, Stefano Marongiu, Pietrina Mattana, Franco Mura, Fabrizio Ortu, Sergio Rocchigiani.
• 25.10 – 06.11.2011: Franca Carboni, Simona Ciusa, Salvatore de Gioannis, Francesca Floris, Marisa Mereu, Giuseppe Moro, Tiziana Pala, Graziella and Immacolata Sotgiu, Nicola Virdis.
• 22.11 – 04.12.2011: Daniele Boninu, Renato Brotzu, Fiorentino Deroma, Elke Hoyer, Thomas Longo, Sandro Mattei, Daniela Mureddu, Massimo Onnis, Salvatore Pau.