• Exhibitions

    Tonino Casula – Be careful where you look

    14 February – 2 March 2018

    Technical sheet: n. nitroacrylic on shaped masonite, 120x90x20cm, 1970, n.1 paint on forex, 80x90cm 1985, n.2 televisions, n.40 red/blue 3D glasses, n.73 diaphanous works, anaglyphs, two-dimensional cortronici and 3D works dating from 1989 to 2017.

    On display, there is a selection of video-sculptorial-musical works made in the last thirty years, diaphanous works, anaglyphs, two-dimensional cortronici and 3D works, video works characterized by the use of contemporary music and more.

    It is an opportunity to deepen, or discover for the first time, the research of this extraordinary artist and reflect on the ties between science, technology and art, both figurative and acoustic.

    Biography: Tonino Casula (Seulo 1931) is an Italian artist and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Transactional Group in 1966, together with Ugo Ugo, Italo Utzeri and Ermanno Leinardi.

    From the ’60s, to overcome traditional languages, he started using unusual tools and materials (spray guns and car paint, pvc, plexiglass…). In the years from 1990 to 1993, he worked with computers, creating the diaphanous works that he also used in theater, ballets and concerts. Starting from 1990, he used computers to create the cortronici. As an elementary teacher, he innovated the teaching of abstract art. He has published for Einaudi Impara l’arte, Il libro dei segni, Tra vedere e non vedere, Vedere e sapere, as well as various iconic texts for Mondadori, Taccuini per il Capitello, Leggere l’immagine for Fabbri editori (a monographic edition of Parlare et scrivere oggi), Linguaggi visivi, Storia dell’arte, Psicologia della percezione (Multigrafia Editrice), Arte per la didattica (Vita e pensiero), La costruzione del desiderio (Città Studio Edizioni).

    He lives and works in Cagliari.

    Homepage: www.toninocasula.net

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    A gift from the artist

    27-30 December 2017

    Technical sheet

    Roberta Filippelli, La Douche, photography on blueback paper, 1/10, 70x100cm, 2017

    Vincenzo Grosso, Ruins, oil on canvas, 120x100cm, 2017

    Alberto Marci, A bed, ice monotype on cotton, 190x210cm, 2017

    Gianni Nieddu, I fachiri (The Fakirs), No. 5 iron brushes, No. 5 plasticine silhouettes, 2017

    Stefano Serusi, Piedini (Small feet), print on forex, clock, 1/5, 43x31cm, 2017

    Marco Useli, The unfolding of a kata, between barriers and artifices, n.2 oil on canvas, 30x40cm, 2016

    L’artista regala (A gift from the artist) it is an annual exhibition that begins immediately after the Christmas holidays and ends on the last day of the year.

    During the 5 days, from the 27th to the 31st of December, 5 artists exhibit a work of their choice: it is our way to offer best wishes for the past year and new one.

    The number and name of the artists varies every year.

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    Zaza Calzia – A dance for the eyes

    21 September – 6 October 2018

    Technical sheet: n. 25 15x15cm collage on board made in 2016-17, 72.5x103cm collage and acrylic on cardboard composed of 5 elements made in 1982, n.19 15x15cm acrylics and collage on canvas made in 2017, n.1 90x100cm acrylic and collage on canvas made in 2004.

    A series of works, collages and “burka eyes” that embrace thirty years of  Zaza Calzia’s production, are displayed in the current exhibition in Cagliari (via Mameli 187) at Spazio E_EmmE.

    The collages, a technique used by the artist since the 60s, are combined with paintings to create layers and spaces in motion, aided in this by the author’s intuition of adding newspapers’ clippings to her art. The fragments of printed words, reduced to a pure sign, stimulate and force the eye to travel on the surface of the painting with tight rhythms, introducing a fourth dimension – time – to a two-dimensional surface.

    Over time, the artist has rarefied the surfaces of the collage, looking for the rhythm of breathing within the continuous color planes.

    The fragments of paper, intuitions and emotions, have occupied small dimensions, drawing expressive force from the wise use of a white paper support. It is the color that, by instinct, humans identify with nothing, for the ease with which it highlights every minute change.

    Dark and wavy acrylics, brushstrokes full of pathos and energy, emerge, like archaic deities or vigilant eyes of women, inquisitive and extraordinarily serene, bearers of a knowledge that is lost in the mists of time.

    Being enigmatic, they do not offer solutions, leaving us to alternate/wander between the yearning for research in that chaos and the illusion of a definition of balance.

    If the “eyes” of Zaza are open on chaotic worlds defined by swirling movements, the panorama that they observe with a fervent and inquisitive expression is a dance: a dance for the eyes and for life.


    Biography: Zaza Calzia (Cagliari 1932), lives and works in Rome.

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