The city of Nuoro becomes the Spanish artist’s studio for an experiment with a group in workshops, using space, time and matter. Sea water, sand and bread for works in transformation.

Today, when experience seems to be reduced to momentary and ephemeral consumption and events remain in the news, art bets on the lasting, is not instantly consumable and is governed by an internal necessity that starts from afar. His is a paradigmatic condition of survival, in perpetual conflict with the excess of information and images, with the acceleration of time and space and with information surfing. By embracing this paradigm, the artists invited for the new cycle of works in the Project Space – Jorge Peris, Nico Vascellari, Margherita Morgantin – respectively in the months of May, September and December 2007, will create personal strategies for the survival of the work of art, in material, symbolic, aesthetic terms, occupying not only the Project Space of the museum, but also exploring neighboring areas.

The work of the first artist present, the Spanish Jorge Peris, is based on an idea of ​​a work that arises from continuous, slow and controlled transformations of natural materials that act on spaces, with a margin of imponderability on the results obtained. In the project for the MAN museum, the city of Nuoro will become the artist’s studio, for an experiment that will involve a group of people, who will collaborate with him, using space, time and matter.

Machines invented for this purpose and organic and mineral materials such as sea water, sand and bread will be used. The interventions, carried out together with the participants in the workshop which will take place in the week preceding the inauguration, will have the value of a shared and collective experience with the city.

Edited by Maria Rosa Sossai.