The Nivola museum is pleased to present the exhibition "AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY", the first important museum project created in Italy by the American artist Peter Fend (1950).

The proposal and installation developed specifically for Sardinia are based on a forty-year tradition of collaborative artistic activities projected into the "real world", which began with JennyHolzer, RichardPrince, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Robin Winters and the Ocean Earth Development Corporation.
Collaborative practice stems from the desire to work with clients outside the art world, while benefiting from a new kind of artistic thinking. The projects have been used by the US Environment Program, by major television news channels around the world, by various state organizations, and have been exhibited in international art venues such as Documenta and the biennials of Venice, Beijing, Sharjah and Osaka.
Ocean Earth has the legal mandate to produce "communication services", such as site analysis with satellite data, and "architectural components" for cities; marine platforms for energy and wild fish, and for the conversion of waste into biolithic materials and light urban megastructures. This work aims to respond to what the Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti considered the four responsibilities of architecture: to provide the technologies that give the city air
clean, clear water, ease of movement and defense.

"AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY", born from the example of the work of the Land artists of the sixties and seventies, addresses the need for species, especially birds, to migrate from the Equator to
Poli - in this part of the world, along the route from Tropical Africa to the European Arctic. In the passage through the Mediterranean, Sardinia is a central site. However, it is endangered by the consumption of fossil fuels, which causes excessive heat and drought, and by the obstruction of the rivers, which interrupts the weather cycle and destroys the habitat.