The project for the Sala 1 space involves around ten young Sardinian artists who, from 28 September until the end of 2007, will exhibit a single work. Thus, in a dynamic and plural way, the MAN wants to support and give visibility to youth creativity and artistic production, documenting its activity and encouraging its dissemination […]
A question of survival
1890-1918
The MAN collection dialogues with Mirella Mibelli Mirella Mibelli was born in Olbia in 1937. Graduated in Rome at the Zileri Art Institute, in 1958 she attended the School of Seeing directed by Oskar Kokoschka at the Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg. While continuing to use traditional techniques such as oil and tempera, he […]
1/60 The project of the Sala 1 space, which began in September with the Cruel Fairy Tales exhibition, has seen and will see young Sardinian artists exhibiting a single work designed specifically for the museum and the hall, for one or two weeks. The MAN wanted and wants in this way to support and give […]
Reportage in Sardinia
Emergent concept “Art “becomes” in the same progression: it pursues man in his madness. In oscillating beyond substance, it itself tends to evolve into multifaceted and colorful market material”. Gian Vincenzo Monni (Nuoro in 1965) stands in antithesis to the media and consumerist frenzy, in favor of a rational vision of the existential condition where […]
No-Panic. Domestic altarpieces
Quick thinking
Monsters, Chimeras and hybrid figures. Biblical themes
It is strictly forbidden to feed crocodiles Josephine Sassu has the ability to trigger fantastic imaginations by raising multiform vegetation, tropical efflorescence, exotic forests from which ferocious beasts leap out, self-portraits in the form of aggressive-erotic animals and unicellular organisms. In his works there is all the attraction for the monstrous and the indefinable, the […]
An archaic and rural Sardinia, made up of silent villages and low stone houses leaning against each other, made up of men busy patiently working in the fields and solitary animals grazing, a Sardinia represented by bare family interiors and objects of daily use: this is the world of Giovanni Dotzo (Isili, 1926), an artist […]