From 1 June to 9 July 2025
Strada Stalale 392 del Lago del Coghinas, 820, Tempio Pausania
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Opening the rich 2025 program will be Pastorello with an exhibition titled "Calligraphy." Giovanni Manunta, known as Pastorello, is one of the most capable and influential artists in the contemporary art scene in Sardinia. A pure painter, in his pre-Adamitic and psychedelic landscapes, he conveys no messages other than those inherent in the painting practice itself. Hence their semantic ambiguity, their self-referentiality, and their alien and feignedly hospitable nature. For the Organic Museum, Pastorello presents a calligraphic rewriting of nature and decides to take the latter not so much as a subject, but as a language, transforming and isolating organic elements into visual signs that refer back to writing, rhythm, and communication.
Through the pictorial medium, the artist offers a metaphysical reading of the natural world: ancestral trees in timeless forests, worlds perpetually in the making, dominated by seductive and fatal characters, hybrid creatures kneaded with history and myths. Ivo Serafino Fenu, curator of the exhibition, writes: "Pastorello's painting practice is simultaneously an act of listening and transcribing the living world, and each of his works, like primitive writing, becomes a tool to connect the human and the natural, revealing a secret order beneath the surface of the visible. In an era of environmental disconnection, recovering this vision also means imagining a new form of balance, where the sign, like man, does not dominate nature but interprets it, rethinks it, and transcribes it beautifully: rewriting nature is a magical act, an act of responsibility, an act of love, but sometimes it can be a piercing cry of alarm, because the line between idyll and apocalypse is very thin."
Alongside Pastorello's exhibition, on June 1st, the exhibition "Existential Geometries" by photographer Francesco Cubeddu will be open to visit. A paragliding and paramotor pilot, he specializes in aerial photography with a particular preference for archaeological sites and the island's territory in general. Despite not considering himself an artist, he achieves, through his photographic images, aesthetic results of poetic significance capable of materializing and giving dimension to that dream called Sardinia. Francesco Cubeddu flies lightly over the earth and captures images that, transcending their photographic origin and, thanks to a privileged perspective, acquire a tactile and painterly appearance of incomparable suggestion: the attentive eye of the photographer can identify those textures of the territory that give life to a disconcerting and deliberately ambiguous visual search. There are reeds and rice fields, lush citrus groves and scorched wheat fields, freshly plowed lands and uncultivated areas marked by rare rocky outcrops or dotted with Mediterranean scrub bushes, muddy water mirrors or expanses of blinding white salt. Curator Ivo Serafino Fenu writes: "It would be reductive to confine these images to the realm of naturalistic photography, albeit of quality, because each frame assumes visual values that transcend the mere objective data and touch, rather, the territories of the noblest aniconic art, with its deliberate relationships between chromatic fields, its inlays of forms, and its interweaving of lines whose resonances amplify in the deep spaces of interiority rather than in the appearance of the senses."
Strada Stalale 392 del Lago del Coghinas, 820, Tempio Pausania, Italy
Opening hours
opens - closes | last entry | |
monday | Closed now | |
tuesday | 12:00 - 17:00 | |
wednesday | 12:00 - 17:00 | |
thursday | 12:00 - 17:00 | |
friday | 12:00 - 18:00 | |
saturday | 12:00 - 18:00 | |
sunday | 12:00 - 18:00 |
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