Contemporary

The renewal of artistic languages after World War II

What marked the “official” entry into Sardinia of contemporary art was, in 1957, the award ceremony at the 1st Nuoro Biennale, amid heated controversy, of an abstract painting by Mauro Manca.

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Costantino Nivola

He is among the few sculptors who have added a new execution technique to those that already exist: sand-casting, with which he performs his most demanding works starting in the 1950s. It is a relief obtained with a simp...

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Satta Square in Nuoro

Against the trend, still common today in Sardinia, to give urban spaces, during “restoration”, a flat Renaissance stereometry, Nivola maintains the inclined trend of the square, which favors the connection between the hi...

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