“The structure has been closed, since February 2018, due to renovations and the reopening times are unknown. The following data on tickets and schedules, and those relating to the mode of access and services, were in force before the closure of the structure.”
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 Nuoro artist (1983-1949) bring together the group of large sculptural chalks, owned by the Region of Sardinia and on loan to the Municipality of Nuoro, the nucleus of works in the MAN Museum, mainly referring to the sculptor's mature production, and a group of other works, the result of both public and private loans and loans.
A group of almost fifty works, representative of the artist's varied activity, which includes significant works such as The Return, The Bell, The Slender, 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 within the museum itinerary reflect the most intense moments of Ciusa's research, from the beginning, in the early twentieth century, to the end of the 1940s. 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 his 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 reach an original synthesis, capable of merging the tradition of Sardinian stone cutters, with its wealth of deep-rooted 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 one and the urban one, giving voice to the popular Sardinian 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 amalgamation 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 from the end of the 19th 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 Sa ria by Antonio Ballero, The Faith by Mario Delitala (part of the decorative cycle of the council chamber of the Municipality of Nuoro), Woman with Fruit by Giovanni Ciusa Romagna, Farmer at the Source by Giuseppe Biasi and numerous others. Works that allow us to trace the most important stages in the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century in Sardinia, characterized by a rediscovery of traditional iconography, customs and daily rites, through which the artists aim to promote a new vision of the island, celebrating its native values, the primitiveness, 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, to the end of the forties. The exhibition itinerary “Sardinia 900" allows us to retrace the most important stages in the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century in Sardinia.
Structure category: Monument or Monumental Complex
Content type:
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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
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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.
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