Calasetta, Museum of Contemporary Art It is organized inside the former city slaughterhouse, fallen into disuse for over forty years and now renovated. The restoration was taken care of by Ermanno Leinardi (1933-2006), an important Sardinian artist and co-founder in 1966 (with Italo Utzeri, Ugo Ugo and Tonino Casula) of the art group Transazionale, that proposed a renewal of art in Sardinia through the means of transactional analysis opposed to gestalt psychology. It was a movement born in the wake of German optical art, which fought in favour of abstract, concrete and informal art around the island in the 1960s. Such researches and experimentations were taking place in the rest of Europe too. The collection, arranged by Ermanno Leinardi himself as a result of exchanges with other artists, mostly reflects trends in art that spread around Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/index.php?xsl=87&s=6409&v=2&c=3209&t=1
Calasetta, Museum of Contemporary Art It is organized inside the former city slaughterhouse, fallen into disuse for over forty years and now renovated. The restoration was taken care of by Ermanno Leinardi (1933-2006), an important Sardinian artist and co-founder in 1966 (with Italo Utzeri, Ugo Ugo and Tonino Casula) of the art group Transazionale, that proposed a renewal of art in Sardinia through the means of transactional analysis opposed to gestalt psychology. It was a movement born in the wake of German optical art, which fought in favour of abstract, concrete and informal art around the island in the 1960s. Such researches and experimentations were taking place in the rest of Europe too. The collection, arranged by Ermanno Leinardi himself as a result of exchanges with other artists, mostly reflects trends in art that spread around Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/index.php?xsl=87&s=6409&v=2&c=3209&t=1