The MAN Museum in Nuoro reopens to the public, after having arranged all the necessary measures to guarantee the health safety of visitors and the Institution’s staff.
The exhibition The secret kingdom. Sardinia-Piedmont: a postcolonial vision, curated by Luca Scarlini, which should have opened on March 13th, is ready to welcome visitors from Friday 29 May and will be open to visitors until Sunday 15 November 2020.
Through the work of artists, musicians and intellectuals, the exhibition represents a broad and complex historiographical and cultural investigation that reveals the relationship between Sardinia and Piedmont, from 1720 to the 1960s, collecting a variety of works of art, documents, artefacts, literary texts, illustrations, ceramics, photographs and musical scores, coming from prestigious Italian institutions.
The exhibition is completed by a section dedicated to animation curated by Sardinia Film Commission Foundation which, in collaboration with MAN, has developed four experimental formats of animated shorts dedicated to Sardinian illustrators active in Piedmont in the twentieth century.
The exhibition reveals an unprecedented face of the Kingdom of Sardinia, a secret kingdom, rich in stories not yet explored and made up of prolific meetings and great mobility, narrated mostly in polemical terms by Sardinian historiography and with numerous misunderstandings by Piedmontese historiography.
The relationship between the two regions began in fact in 1720, when the island became Savoy, and since then the exchanges and cultural transactions between the two territories increasingly intensified, determining an era of movements of people, objects and ideas that changed profoundly affected the fate of Sardinia and Piedmont and would have contributed to the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy and the development of a national culture.
The exhibition is accompanied by a large monographic catalog published by Ilisso which collects unpublished essays specially commissioned from important Sardinian and Piedmontese authors and writers such as Marcello Fois , writer, playwright and screenwriter, Gianni Farinetti , writer, screenwriter and director, Maria Paola Dettori , art historian, Luciano Marrocu , historian and writer, e Luigi Fassi, director of MAN.
