On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Sassari honored Ausonio Tanda , an artist who, at the heart of the 20th century, straddled tradition and avant-garde, neorealism and experimentation. Last night, the Metropolitan City Hall in Piazza d'Italia honored him with a well-attended event in the Sala Sciuti.
Through institutional recollections, contributions from critics and art historians (Giuliana Altea and Antonella Camarda), and personal testimonies (his niece Paola Tanda) , the life and career of the artist, born in Sorso and later moved to Rome, were retraced.
The permanent exhibition housed in the rooms of the former Provincial Palace of Sassari was also inaugurated on this occasion. It is a synthesis of the recurring themes in Ausonio Tanda's work: still lifes and flowers, seascapes and work, which evoke life's hardships and solitude, portraits and human figures.
In the 1960s, Tanda explored the relationship between organism and machine, expanding his techniques and using different materials: in Cyborgs, man is overwhelmed by technology.