Double opening to the public on Saturday 18 May 2024 at ExMa. The Torretta and Terrazza exhibition rooms will in fact host two new exhibitions curated by Orientare srl, which will complement the exhibition dedicated to Archimedes’ inventions which can be visited until mid-June in the Volte room.
Until June 5, 2024, the Sala della Torretta hosts In luce, by the artist Vincenzo Pattusi, which inaugurates a cycle of solo shows that will alternate until September. Born in Nuoro in 1978, Vincenzo Pattusi began painting as a self-taught artist while studying for a degree in History of Art at the University of Pisa, followed by a Master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. Always attracted by the stylistic and formal solutions of Street Art, he directs his visual research towards a marked and suggestive graphic design, signing his works with the pseudonym Ludo 1948.
Vincenzo Pattusi has often alternated numerous public and site-specific works with his pictorial production on canvas, such as: Faraway so Close for the Olbia-Costa Smeralda airport (Olbia 2011), and a mosaic made with 30,000 credit cards used for headquarters of the Banco di Sardegna in Sassari (Sassari 2013). His works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad: from the Man in Nuoro to Paris and Berlin. In 2013 he was among the Sardinian artists called to exhibit at the Masedu Museum in Sassari as part of the 54th Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Siniscola.
In 1984 work began which would lead to the definitive opening to the public of the ExMa in 1993, the first municipal art and culture centre, intended to host the temporary exhibitions planned by the Department of Culture alongside the permanent collections of the Civic Museums. To retrace the history of this important monument, the Terrace room will host “Images over time” until the end of the year, an exhibition displaying thirty-five large-format photographs that tell the story of the various phases of the slaughterhouse, starting from the mid-19th century project. The story through images and texts starts from the copy of the project from 1845, the original tables of which are kept in the municipal archives, and passes through the oldest images which also portray the staff at work, up to the state of semi-abandonment in which this monument found itself. to the mid-1980s, when construction began. The main body of images is represented by the photos taken by the Ibba company which in the 1980s carried out the restoration works, based on a design by the architect Libero Cecchini, alongside private loans and the newspaper reports of L’Unione Sarda and of La Nuova Sardegna which recount the inaugural days of October 1993.
The exhibitions can be visited from Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 1pm and from 4pm to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday continuously from 10am to 8pm.
