Parallel to the review Glo – Navel gazing, the Education Department of the MAN has launched the new photographic contest “The ideal city”, which aims to promote a reflection on the city and invites everyone to share their gaze on it, by sending from one to ten images to the address amministrazione.man@ gmail.coma starting from September 27th, the date on which the second part of Glo – Navel gazing .
The “The ideal city” contest wanted to extend the investigation into the creative richness of Nuoro to the entire community, actively involving it in an exchange of stories and points of view. The first deadline for submitting projects has been set for January 6, 2012. At the end of the contest the material collected will be exhibited in the Glo space of the former ASL building. On the MAN Facebook page it will be possible to view all the works and express a preference to award the first prize.
The ideal city
18.11 – 20.11.2011
On the occasion of the “Autumn in Barbagia” event, the MAN Museum and the Municipality of Nuoro organized the exhibition entitled The ideal city, in which around twenty works from the MAN’s permanent collection were exhibited and the site-specific intervention was presented Blank Map Project by the artist Giulia Casula. The city as a center of perfect convergence between human microcosms becomes ideal only in a mental conception where space is placed at the service of man. A concept that has always been the subject of human reflection: the city, a site to be designed and in which to live in harmony, a place of social meeting, political organization and economic planning. This image, although it remains utopian in its general realization and lives, perhaps, in the memory of an unidentified past or in the idea of a transformation in the future, a suspended place of urban views, interiors of buildings and suburbs within an ideal map. «The place is nothing outside the mind; physical greatness is nothing within the mind” (Hobbes) , so that knowledge is ultimately available, according to the mapping model, of the relationship between the two maps, internal and external. And precisely because the internal one corresponds to the imaginary space and prevails over the external one, encompassing it, the city is not just an architectural abstraction but a meeting place between two worlds.
