2001 April 13

Laerru: a biennial sculpture to commemorate the artist Antonio Pala

LAERRU. The first biennial sculpture organized by the Pro Loco is dedicated to Antonio Pala, The artist, who died just over a year ago, pride of laerresi who have followed the career and professional achievement in the years of his long stay in Cagliari. The biennial exhibition of works will not be. The award will be, but will be awarded to the artist who manages to win over the jury. It will therefore be an extemporaneous, un simposio di scultura in pietra, with the participation of the artists invited by the organizers. The organization must provide blocks of stone carving and the necessary assistance. The issues to which the artists must inspire their works will concern the urban environment. In the announcement it comes to reception, places disappeared as the church of Remedy and the horse, Laerru animal that has a special history. All the works will become the property of the organization that, senza fini di lucro, shall make them available to the territory. The symposium will take place from 9 to the 16 August. "The goal – Theodora says Sini, president of the Pro Loco, is the revaluation of materials and artistic expressions in the territory, from an ancient tradition ». He wants to be but also a moment of reflection on the state of the art and its management in Sardinia. The event will conclude with a conference on the problems of urbanism in relation to art and territory. The conference will close the biennial will also be dedicated to the memory of the artist to whom it is dedicated, quel Toeddu Pala che, though living long, till death, Cagliari, has always maintained relations with the country that gave birth. His works are dedicated to the Via Crucis on display in the parish church, as well as the great Christ, a splendid specimen of the crucified, austere in its refined simplicity, kept in the sacristy, with which, a Pasqua, the rite of "on iscravamentu". Work donated to the community a few months before his death, which occurred at the age of 68 age, while carrying out a series of sacred works.
Joseph Pulido