Mediterranean identity, contemporary art and cultural heritage. Constantino Nivola in New York

Abstract eng:
Costantino Nivola spent his childhood in a small Sardinian village. He completed his education in the Thirties in Milan, the buzzing Italian capital of art and architecture. In New York, after the war, his artistic personality expressed in the contrast between the place of his origins and the metropolis. If New York School artists develop the “informal” abstraction, Nivola distinguishes himself for the originality of his techniques (painting, sculpture, and sandcasting) and of the personal themes of his roots (mothers and masons of the tradition). Nivola's work yields the synthesis between the archetypal mythology of the pre-classic Mediterranean culture and the universal aspiration to abstract representation, and discloses poetically the timeless cultural heritage of the most archaic Sardinia. The declination of poetical and technical issues according to the combination of tradition and innovation becomes the key for understanding the potentials of our cultural heritages and their sustainable development.

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