Le Corbusier's Sardinian drawings debut at Museo Nivola
On December 22, 2018, the Museo Nivola in Orani, Sardinia, opens 'Le Corbusier. Lezioni di Modernismo', the first Italian exhibition of drawings by Le Corbusier from the Nivola collection. The show presents 64 works selected from a corpus of over 300, reuniting segments of the collection split between Europe and America. The exhibition explores both Le Corbusier's creative universe and his friendship with Sardinian artist Costantino Nivola, which began in 1946 when Le Corbusier was in New York as part of the UN headquarters design team. Nivola considered the drawings a vade mecum of formal ideas and a lesson in design rigor and creative freedom. Curated by Antonella Camarda, Giuliana Altea, Richard Ingersoll, and Marida Talamona, the project is supported by the Fondazione di Sardegna and Fondazione Nivola under AR/S – Arte condivisa in Sardegna.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Le Corbusier. Lezioni di Modernismo' opens December 22, 2018 at Museo Nivola in Orani, Sardinia.
- First Italian exhibition of Le Corbusier drawings from the Nivola collection.
- 64 works selected from over 300 drawings, reuniting segments split between Europe and America.
- Le Corbusier and Costantino Nivola met in 1946 in New York, where Le Corbusier worked on the UN headquarters.
- Nivola described learning 'the rules of the game, the most beautiful game ever invented, the game of art' from Le Corbusier's drawings.
- Curators: Antonella Camarda, Giuliana Altea, Richard Ingersoll, Marida Talamona.
- Project by Fondazione di Sardegna and Fondazione Nivola under AR/S – Arte condivisa in Sardegna.
- Drawings represent what Le Corbusier carried with him after WWII, saving them from the ruins of the old world.
Entities
Artists
- Le Corbusier
- Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
- Costantino Nivola
Institutions
- Museo Nivola
- Fondazione di Sardegna
- Fondazione Nivola
- AR/S – Arte condivisa in Sardegna
- United Nations
Locations
- Orani
- Sardinia
- Italy
- New York
- United States
- Paris
- France
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Switzerland
- Roccabruna