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 […]
DNA From the twentieth century to today The MAN presents DNA From the twentieth century to today, its permanent collection, in an even more important and rich journey of works and artists which, from Ballero to Nivola passing through Francesco Ciusa, winds throughout the twentieth century and, thanks to new acquisitions, continues up to the […]
A forest of white trees the The MAN measures itself with a new installation dedicating an entire room of the museum to Nicola Filia's "forest of white trees", a site-specific project designed for the MAN by the young Sardinian ceramic artist. Clay, a living and vital material par excellence, the beginning and principle of all […]
Paco Cao, the Victim's Tour Conceived as a tourist route for the city of Cagliari, carried out using a bus set up at a specific time and with the participation of a guide who gave the relevant explanations, the Victim Tour, a project by Paco Cao edited by MAN, supposes a revision of the occult […]