Edited by Emanuela Manca and Luigi Fassi

In tune with the entire curatorial project and the themes addressed with “Personnages” And “Laurels without leaves” the MAN offers around twenty works belonging to the museum’s permanent collection, including drawings, sculptures and paintings.

Among the artists on display, Antonio Ballero, Giuseppe Biasi, Salvatore Fancello, Francesco Ciusa, Francesca Devoto, Bernardino Palazzi and Giacinto Satta, key figures for the development of new expressive canons in the Sardinian art scene.

The corpus exhibition is an extraordinary opportunity to see not only finished works but also sketches and anatomical studies, which reveal at the same time the attention towards the classics – re-elaborating their thought in the light of one’s own culture – and the investigation into physiognomy that involves fine science nineteenth century profoundly influencing the cultural history of Sardinia.

In the works it is the representation of the human figure in its symbolic dimension that prevails, between details of faces and volumes of bodies, always in close relationship with the world of 20th century Sardinia and the insular Mediterranean culture.