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Museum laboratory Project idea and architectonic designs by Nik Spatari |
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Prof. Architect Bruno Zevi, when he learned about the project, wrote to Spatari: “I only like heretical creative spirits. Like Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Borromini, Wright, LeCorbusier, Sharoun, and now, perhaps, Eisenman and Ghery. I know that you are a creative spirit, both restless and heretical. The magazine and my column in the Espresso are at your disposal. I’m not asking you anything, because I've never asked anybody anything. I’m only saying that I agree with you.” VISSI D'ARTE E DI AMBIENTE And these are the words of Zevi as published in the magazine “L’Espresso”: “ It is the only museum laboratory of its kind in Italy: covered by glass, copper and wooden frame, it resembles a moving mountain flying like a bird over the cliffs of the plateau and over the torrent Torbido”. A friend of Le Corbusier and Jean Cocteau, Spatari is in charge of the project carried our in this peculiar multifunctional place called MuSaBa. Its structure, inspired by the language of local archaeological fragments, plays with the combination of triangles and circles, with total exclusion of squares, which are considered to be artificial, aseptic, and uniform. We are confronted with the dream of a “archaic future” Calabrian artist.” |
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An unyielding search for organic forms in the core of Calabria “This Art museum, in the heart of Calabria, is the work in progress of one man alone, together with Hiske, of constantly retouching by hand, of never despairing mentally. The well known artist, Nik, has dedicated himself to this project after architectural experiences at an European level. He returned, with Hiske, to his own country to perform an act of desperate creative will-power. It is a modern exploit also in the use of the remains that form its base; it is grafted into the landscape with anti-mimetic fury but with inner sensitivity. The sense of the future coincides with the ancestral conscience. Mysterious, it seems familiar to the spirit, like every organic creature. Splendid figurative freedom, but complete structural control. It is one of the extremely rare occasions where an outsider has poured the salt of an architecture into the earth.” (Renato Pedio “L’Architecture”) |
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Education The project was strongly desired by both Spatari and Maas, and draws its inspiration from the Renaissance workshops, where the master sought to create his works with the help of his collaborators who, therefore, learned their art in a practical way. MuSaBa is traditionally a place where young people are trained, and where people who are particularly interested in art, architecture, and environment, can gain current information. The experience gained during thirty years of activity makes MuSaBa an “international centre par excellence” in its field, capable of offering a practical education experience through workshops and hands-on courses. |
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