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The Founders |
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The natural-positive philosophy of MuSaBa management gives value to the environmental and artistic resources that are rooted in history and achitecture |
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Hiske’s island between history and project In the conceptual course of restoring the environment at MuSaBa, Nik Spatari and Hiske Maas became aware of the cultural interrelationship between artistic and environmental components on one side and architectural and archaeological elements on the other side. Through their organization, Spatari – Maas seek to fully satisfy the needs of humans for creative and integrative experience and knowledge, whether gained through cultural tourism, apprenticeship education, collective social-economic development, or environmental and cultural education and research. |
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Nik Spatari Nik Spatari is a painter, sculptor, architect, and craftsman: a Renaissance avant-garde artist. Spatari’s passion for great architecture and art took him to Paris in the fifties and sixties, where he associated with Le Corbusier’s studio and met Jean Cocteau. Nik had studied the ingenious creators of Pompeian frescos and the Etruscan underground structures, old masters such as Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and El Greco, and modern artists including Klee, Kandinsky, Nolde, Picasso, Dufy, Gaugin, Modigliani, and Max Ernst. Spatari’s interest in architecture become his primary orientation, and this led him in 1969 to begin with Hiske Maas his ambitious project of creating a laboratory-school-museum in the Calabria region of southernmost Italy. |
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Hiske Maas Hiske Maas is a rather unconventional manager who through collaboration and coordination harnesses Nik’s exuberant creativity towards concrete goals and develops seminars, workshops, apprenticeships, and cultural tourism. After attending the Art Academy in Amsterdam, she attended Schools in London, Lausanne, Paris, and New York before becoming an art dealer in Milan. |
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Looking for a new experience as they managed their art gallery “Studio Hiske” in Via Solferino in the heart of Brera, Hiske Maas and Nik Spatari were captured by a stupendous site – today’s MuSaBa. Hiske has navigated the intricacies of Italian bureaucracy not only to incrementally buy the monastery ruins, the old railway station, and land that now constitute the Mediterranean Art Garden Park but also to currently seek legislation for environmental and archaeological preservation of the site. |
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