The museum MAN of Nuoro, in collaboration with the Monte Verità Foundation of Ascona (CH) throws a open call For Sardinian authors (under 45) as part of a joint project of residencies for young artists.
Participants are invited to submit, no later than September 15, 2022 , the synopsis of a research project to be conducted in Monte Verità, where they will come into direct contact with the history, identity and magnetism of the place. The project must in fact be the outcome of a reflection on the authentic nature of the Mount which will welcome the guest artists called to carry out their research by inhabiting every space of the famous “hill of utopia”.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Monte Verità was in fact an extraordinary cradle of European counterculture, marked by memorable presences. 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 who, fascinated by the power of the hill, dedicated a traveling exhibition to it in 1978 “The breasts of truth” now rearranged in the local museum of Casa Anatta. At Monte Verità architecture, art and dance have always dialogued in a virtuosity against the backdrop of a community of free men, an anarchic paradise that has attracted thinkers, painters, writers, philosophers, designers from every corner of Europe. In one hundred years of utopia and ideals, spirituality and alternative practices, from vegetarianism to the sunbathing of the Lebensreform, from theosophy to psychoanalysis, the Mount has inspired the free expression of human genius through the harmonious exercise of the body, aesthetic research, poetry.
The competition for the assignment of a residence will offer a 3 young Sardinian artists the possibility of conducting a project on site, welcomed by this foreign institution twinned with the MAN. This is an agreement that will be enriched, in a second edition, by an important triangulation between other places of culture, in addition to the MAN of Nuoro and the Monte Verità Foundation of Ascona (CH) also the Museo Novecento of Florence. The works created during the residency will become part of the MAN collection.
Participation
The invitation is open to all emerging authors, who are not over 45 years of age, currently active in the Sardinian scene, who are asked to present their curriculum vitae and the synopsis of a project (max 5 thousand characters) to be brought to term during n. 3 weeks of residency at Monte Verità.
At the same time, the MAN Museum will host 3 artists selected by the Swiss institution who will, vice versa, conduct a work on the Sardinian territory that is the result of a reflection on themes proposed by the Museum and connected to local identity.
Coordination
Elisabetta Masala, curator of the MAN Museum Nuoro with the support of Sardinia Film Commission Foundation
Jury
Chiara Gatti, director of the MAN Museum Nuoro
Nicoletta Mongini, cultural manager of the Monte Verità Foundation Ascona (CH)
Carole Haensler, director of the Villa dei Cedri Civic Museum Bellinzona (CH)
Andrea Dall’Asta SJ, director of the San Fedele Gallery and Museum, Milan
Cristiana Campanini, art critic and journalist for the newspaper La Repubblica
Visiting professor
A Szeemann
Christiane Löhr
Timings
closing of applications: 15 September 2022
selection outcome: end of October 2022
open lecture at MAN for all participants: February 2023
introductory conference for the residency: March 2023
residency period: April 2023
public return and final exhibition: May 2023
Conditions
Travel to/and accommodation paid for by the organizing bodies, who will offer the artists individual and/or collective work spaces, as well as the coordination of activities and two workshops organized by visiting professors.
Participation
Send the portfolio including curriculum vitae and synopsis of the project (max 5 thousand characters), all named with the candidate’s reference in pdf format via email to: info@museoman.it
