{"id":1666,"date":"2015-02-15T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sandroscalia.eu\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:11:04","slug":"sandro-scalia-naturalia-artificialia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandroscalia.com\/en\/sandro-scalia-naturalia-artificialia\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalia\/artificialia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Museo Civico di Castelbuono is pleased to present the exhibition naturalia\/artificialia<\/em>, a solo show by Sandro Scalia, the first in a series of in-depth presentations of the artists represented in the Museum\u2019s permanent collection. On the occasion of the opening, the restoration of a photograph taken by the artist in 1995, from the Museum\u2019s storerooms, will be presented to the public. The image shows a detail of Giacomo Serpotta\u2019s late seventeenth-century stuccoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition naturalia\/artificialia<\/em> is a new project by Sandro Scalia, produced following a residency exploring the artistic, architectural and landscape heritage of Castelbuono and its surroundings. A visual investigation, using the languages of video and photography, carried out in a number of specific places, following botanical cues and phenomena of light and sound: the wood of monumental holly trees, the Clock Tower and details of some evocative sites, in continuity with the investigation of the Sicilian landscape that the artist has been pursuing for over a decade with the project Letture siciliane<\/em>. Scalia has an expert knowledge of the Madonie Park area, which has been the subject of many of his works, from A20<\/em>, devoted to the construction of the Palermo\u2013Messina motorway with its monumental viaducts, to the series of shots of \u201cSunday day-trippers\u201d in the snow at Piano Battaglia, to name but a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographic prints and videos on display \u2013 the soundtrack of one of them was created in collaboration with the composer and performer Alessandro Librio \u2013 offer a new reading of the contemporary landscape, in continuity with the research into the identity of the territory carried out by the Museo Civico di Castelbuono. The idea is to deepen our knowledge, from different perspectives, of the environment around us, a setting of great beauty on which our gaze lingers ever more distractedly. Sandro Scalia\u2019s lens and the panoramic format of the images, stretched horizontally \u2013 the artist\u2019s favourite cut \u2013 draw us into the image and seduce us through the language of colour, the elegant choice of light contrasts and a staging that is either carefully constructed or found by chance. What emerges is the photographer\u2019s gaze, which involves us all as spectators, with the aim of developing a broader discourse on our personal relationship with the horizon, with the space we inhabit and, above all, with the image, captured in a gesture that suspends a moment for ever. At the end of the exhibition Sandro Scalia will donate a photographic work, the outcome of the project carried out for the exhibition, in order to enrich the permanent collection of the Museo Civico di Castelbuono with a newly commissioned artistic production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandro Scalia\u2019s project is accompanied by the publication of a notebook, with an introduction by Laura Barreca, an interview by Valentina Bruschi and a critical essay by Salvatore Dav\u00ec. The notebook format, later adopted for the Museo Civico\u2019s \u201cquaderni della collezione\u201d (collection notebooks) series, was conceived and designed by Paolo Di Vita, lecturer in Editorial Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would like to thank the Agriturismo<\/strong> Bergi<\/strong> for supporting Sandro Scalia\u2019s project, and The HotelSphere Hotel & Villa Collection<\/strong> of Palermo, main sponsor of the Museo Civico di Castelbuono\u2019s annual programme.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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