Nuoro, TRIBU Space - Francesco Ciusa Municipal Museum

On August 4, 2016, the Francesco Ciusa Museum reopened to the public, following an agreement between the Municipality and the Province of Nuoro for the associated management of the structure through the MAN Museum.
The rooms dedicated to the famous artist from Nuoro (1983-1949) bring together the group of great sculptural chalks, owned by the Region of Sardinia and on loan to the Municipality of Nuoro, the core of works of the MAN Museum, referring mainly to the sculptor's mature production, and a group of other works, the result of loans and loans from both public and private loans.
A group of almost fifty works, representative of the artist's varied activities, which include significant works such as The Return, The Bell, The Slingback, The Cainita, the reconstruction, integrated with original marble fragments, of the Monument to Sebastiano Satta - erected in 1931 and later destroyed - up to the famous Mother of the Killed, a symbolic work of Sardinian figurative culture, which the sculptor presented at the Venice Biennale in 1907, receiving critical acclaim.
The sculptures presented in the museum itinerary reflect the most intense moments of Ciusa's research, from the beginning, in the early twentieth century, until the end of the forties. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ciusa had the opportunity to attend, since 1899, the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, alongside masters such as the sculptor Domenico Trentacoste, the Macchiaiolo painter Giovanni Fattori and the engraver Adolfo De Carolis, whose languages he reworked not only, between realism and symbolism, but also anarchist and socialist ideas.
A journey of intense reflection and exchange with important personalities, such as Giovanni Papini, Plinio Nomellini, Galileo Chini, thanks to whose contribution the sculptor's work was able to arrive at an original synthesis, capable of merging the tradition of Sardinian stone cutters, with its wealth of deep-seated values and recurring themes, and academic sculptural techniques. Considered the initiator of modern sculpture in Sardinia, Ciusa managed to reconcile two distant realities, the agro-pastoral and the urban, giving voice to the Sardinian popular world, hitherto unheard of.
In addition to the sculptor's works, the spaces of the former court of Nuoro host a new exhibition itinerary, “Sardinia 900", dedicated to the artists of the Sardinian pictorial school of the first half of the last century, through the most important works in the MAN collection. Born from the merging of four public collections (Province of Nuoro, Municipality of Nuoro, Nuoro Chamber of Commerce, Provincial Tourism Authority) and subsequently grown thanks to a careful policy of acquisitions and loans, the MAN collection houses works by artists born or active in Sardinia, covering a period that goes from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. A corpus of more than 600 works that includes some of the most important authors, as well as some key works in the history of art in Sardinia, such as Samria by Antonio Ballero, La Fede by Mario Delitala (part of the decorative cycle of the council chamber of the City of Nuoro), Woman with fruit by Giovanni Ciusa Romagna, Farmer at the Source by Giuseppe Biasi and numerous others. Works that allow you to explore the most important stages in the history of art of the first half of the twentieth century in Sardinia, characterized by a rediscovery of traditional iconography, costumes and daily rites, through which the artists intend to promote a new vision of the island, celebrating its native values, the origin, the myth of the uncontaminated land and the genuineness of the Sardinian people, as opposed to the approval of modernity.

Why it is important to visit it
The sculptures presented in the Ciusa Museum reflect the most intense moments of the research of the great Nuoro sculptor, from the beginning, in the early twentieth century, until the end of the forties. The “Sardinia 900" exhibition itinerary allows you to retrace the most important stages in the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century in Sardinia.

Tag

Structure category: Monument or Monumental Complex

Content type: Arts

Usability: Closed

Province: Nuoro

Common: Nuoro

Macro Territorial Area: Central Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 08100

Address: piazza S. Maria della Neve

Telephone: +39 0784 216990

E-mail: ufficio.cultura@comune.nuoro.it museociusa@comune.nuoro.it

January - December

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Information on tickets and access: The property has been closed, since February 2018, for renovations and the reopening times are unknown. The data below on tickets and schedules, and those referring to the method of access and services, were in force before the closure of the structure.

Access mode: For a fee

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