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The Single Regional Museum of Sardinian Textile Art - MURATS, the Municipality of Samugheo, Orientale Srl, in collaboration with Soroptimist Club Oristano, present the exhibition “You dressed in white” curated by Anna Rita Punzo.
Artists: Pippa Bacca, Oreste Pipolo, Pietruccia Bassu
On the occasion of the inauguration, which will be held Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 6.30 pm in the conference room of the MURATS Museum, the Mayor of Samugheo Basilio Patta, the Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Samugheo Elisabetta Sanna, the president of the Soroptimist Club of Oristano Anna Maria Marrocu and the Director of MURATS Anna Rita Punzo will speak.
“You dressed in white” is the passage taken from the composition “A Pippa” that the poet Alda Merini wrote in memory of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, aka Pippa Bacca, atrociously torn from life near the town of Gezbe, in Turkey, during the hitchhiking trip/performance “Brides on tour” (2008) that should have taken her from Milan to Jerusalem. The verse becomes the title of an exhibition that intends to investigate the polysemic value of the bride's dress, veil and outfit, through the works of Oreste Pipolo, Pietruccia Bassu and Pippa Bacca herself, of which this year, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her birth, the MURATS Museum celebrates memory and artistic research through the exhibition of a selection of works capable of evoking archetypal rites and symbols relating to the sacredness of nature and the cult of Mater Matuta.
In Oreste Pipolo's photographic narratives, the wedding veil becomes a caress, shroud, protection, but also a symbol of complaint and awareness; his project “Veiled Naples” reaches the Single Regional Museum of Sardinian Textile Art - MURATS - in Samugheo, after being exhibited in the prestigious rooms of the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples. Pippa Bacca's white dress is an emblem of an antithetical, conservative and dynamic energy, a silent witness to an absence and at the same time a visual metaphor for trust in others and elsewhere. The memory of the 'wedding march' undertaken by Pippa Bacca between regions prostrated by war conflicts and misery is a hymn to life, to the idea of a journey understood as a desire to listen and to dialogue, as an ability to share one's journey with others. The wedding outfit is the textile matrix of the uncelebrated wedding evoked by the site-specific installation by Pietruccia Bassu, a waiting work, encapsulated in the limbo of the unfulfilled, in the suspended time in which what has not finalized its purpose and is now something else lives.
The works of the three artists, despite the diversity of the expressive media of reference, are the result of osmotic-relational processes triggered by the authors and activated by people, experiences, places crossed, lived and shared. Pippa Bacca's journey was not interrupted in a forest near Istanbul, she continues in Sardinia, in Samugheo, thanks to the will of those who still believe in the values that guided her journey.
We thank Pippa Bacca's family, in the person of Rosalia Pasqualina di Marineo, attentive guardian of her sister's artistic and ethical heritage, to whose availability we owe the great privilege of being able to welcome the works that tell it today in our Museum.
Pippa Bacca's journey never ended. Pippa continues to travel alongside the people who knew her after her death and fell in love with her. Today his wedding march continues in Sardinia, in Samugheo, also thanks to the contribution and support of the Soroptimist Club of Oristano, which has always been committed to the conception, organization and promotion of actions and projects to support equal opportunities, human rights and the individual and collective potential of women.
The video-narration of the exhibition “You dressed in white...” It is the tribute that Playlab Produzioni-Video di Siniscola dedicates to Pippa Bacca and to all the women 'on the way'.
We thank Oreste Pipolo's family, in the person of his daughter Miriam Pipolo, who today, together with her sister Ivana, enthusiastically carries on the photographic narrative initiated by her father.
Start:
2024-05-11
end:
2024-07-21
Structure contacts:
MURATS Museum - Single Regional Museum of Sardinian Textile Art
Via Bologna sn., Samugheo (OR)
E-mail: museomurats@gmail.com
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