Nuoro and Monte Verità, it all started here. In two ideal islands, two border lands and, at the same time, of belonging. Magnetic places rich in history, which last April welcomed the protagonists of the collective exhibition Die Zauberberge_The Enchanted Mountains. The residencies, created in collaboration with the Monte Verità Foundation of Ascona, involved six artists, three Sardinians and three Swiss, who during during the research period they discussed common themes.

The artists of Swiss origin – Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Maya Hottarek, Lisa Lurati – carried out an investigation into the rich local identity in the Sardinian territory. At the same time, three young Sardinian artists - Giaime Meloni, Elena Muresu, Marco Useli - have inhabited Monte Verità and the spaces of the famous "hill of utopia", where architecture, art and dance have always dialogued in a virtuous way. An anarchist paradise that has attracted thinkers, painters, writers, philosophers, designers from every corner of Europe: from the anarchist Kropotkin to the Hungarian choreographer Rudolf von Laban, from the Dadaist Hugo Ball to the architect Walter Gropius, from the artist Hans Arp to Karl Gustav Jung, up to the great curator Harald Szeemann.

The works exhibited in Die Zauberberge_The enchanted mountains represent the result of this research, a contemporary look at places symbolic of primordial components, of spiritualism and autarky. They are photographs, sculptures, graphics, installations, works forged from a unique experience, from the journey and isolation, from the wild and lush beauty of nature, from the absolute breath of woods of archaic memory.