The installation of will be inaugurated on February 17th, together with the exhibitions of Berenice Abbott and Jennifer West Leonardo Boscani, Golden Zimmer , specifically created for the spaces of the Project Room of the MAN Museum.
Golden Zimmer it is the first of a series of initiatives that introduce the third and final appointment of the multi-year exhibition project The Resistance Constant , dedicated to more innovative research That, from the first years of regional autonomy to the present day , characterized the Sardinian artistic scene .
After the first two events in 2015 and 2016, The Resistance Constant #3 , edited by Micaela Deiana, it will be dedicated to the most recent artistic research, developed during the 2000s. The Prelude, through a cycle of appointments, events and exhibitions, will propose thematic insights on issues related to socially engaged art, video research, the relationship between art and sound and performance.
The search for Leonardo Boscani Since the 1990s, it has been aimed at analyzing the social and political-economic contradictions of Western society, to which it opposes science fiction utopias, in which criticism and irony are balanced in the creation of a new linguistic world.
In Golden Zimmer the reflection focuses on migratory exodus which is characterizing the European panorama in recent years. The attempts and contradictions of the social policies implemented by the European Union to respond to the ongoing emergency are sublimated into a golden environment, a place divorced from temporality, dreamed of and unattainable, which recalls the symbolism and aesthetics of the places of worship of the Orthodox religion or the icons and altarpieces of Byzantine and medieval art.
The material with which the installation is made, however, is not the precious gold leaf but the equally delicate – and much more easily deteriorated – matte of thermal blankets used in first aid situations. The room cited by Boscani in the title of the installation therefore evokes the domestic one dreamed of by the migrant seeking a new life in Europe. The reference to individual, intimate and human experience is accompanied by statistical data on migratory policies, the numbers of which are scientifically reported by the artist in a decorative frieze that runs along the entire room.
Symbol And functionality, decoration And social commitment they balance as one space for critical thinking which, through the sensorial experience of color and light, stimulates individual and collective consciences.
Leonardo Boscani(Sassari, 1961) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari: Among the most recent exhibitions are the solo exhibitions “Umana Ambizione + Notre Siècle, Boscani + Bertozzi”, Musée de la Corse, Corte, FR (2014) , “DNA-Natural Discipline of the Antagonist 2, Boscani + Delogu”, curated by Emanuela Falqui, Galleria S’Umbra, Cagliari (2014) and the group shows “Par le Bleu, la « grande couleur”, curated by Anne Alessandri , FRAC-Corse, Bastion de France, Portovecchio, FR (2015), “Civil Servants”, curated by Micaela Deiana, MAN Nuoro (2015), Love for risk, MSU-Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (2012 )
