The Sound Between:Italian Genius- From Leonardo da Vinci to Pinuccio Sciola

Italian Genius – From Leonardo da Vinci to Pinuccio Sciola is the result of an experimental research focusing on these two Artists and their relationship with Nature. Leonardo da Vinci and Pinuccio Sciola are two Thinker Artists, they operate 400 years apart, in two different historical and cultural contexts and with different materials and finalities. Hence, what do these two artists, so brilliant and at the same time so dissimilar in their respective artistic modus operandi, have in common? The answer lies in their observation of Nature: although using different methods, they reach commons purposes and solutions with the aim of investigating the Earth’s origin, seen both as a planet and as a living spirit.

In Leonardo da Vinci and Pinuccio Sciola is evident a deep love for Nature, that reveals to them the relentless movement that turns life in death and vice-versa, and the access key to understanding abstract and invisible things, hidden in the chasm of geological time.

Giulia Pilloni studied at the University of Cagliari, where she graduated with a thesis on Pinuccio Sciola and his work between the 60s and 90s. Her research concentrated on those three decades during which the artist gained international recognition, subsequently reaffirmed by his renowned work Sounding Stones in the early 90s.

She has taken part to several international conferences and seminars on Sardinian traditional art. Since 2017, in her hometown of San Sperate she has been collaborating with the annual Visual Art Festival San’Arte, originated by an idea of Pinuccio Sciola and implemented by the eponymous Foundation; within the 2019 edition of the Festival she curated the touring exhibition In Principio fu Pietrino, focused on Pinuccio Sciola’s artistic and social endeavours, as documented in the Foundations’ archives, between 1959 and the end of the 70s.

Giulia Pilloni currently carries on her research work with the Foundations PS Museum and Pinuccio Sciola, which look after the Giardino Sonoro (Sounding Garden) in San Sperate and the artist’s Open Air Museum, organise cultural events, curate the Archive and file the sculptor’s works.