Sila is increasingly recognized as a center of cultural excellence and historical research. The Mabos (Museo d’Arte del Bosco della Sila) proves it), an exhibition park populated by over 40 works produced site-specific by national and international artists, which promotes environmental art in the heart of the Sila National Park. But not only: to involve the community, the boundaries of the forest is valid, bringing the Mabos Archive exhibition to the villages of the Silana Catanzaro area, consisting of technical cards, sketches, casts, but also notes and indications for some maintenance proposals, photographs and video assembly of long work in progress.
After the stages in Sorbo San Basile and Cicala, thanks to the contribution of the Gal of the two seas, the exhibition reached the third edition and continues the journey to Albi, within the Museum of Civilization Agrosilvopastole, of the arts and traditions of the Sila National Park, managed by the Auser Albi Association “S. Pertini”.
Promoted as part of the project financed with resources of the Calabria PSR 2014/2022 – Measure 19.4 “Additional resources” – Cup: J48H23001140006, the exhibition, curated by the Mabos director, Elisabetta Longo, will be inaugurated on Wednesday 6 August and will be open until 22 August.
“We aim to strengthen Sila not only as a naturalistic destination, but also as a place full of history and memory. To favor this process is digitization as well as the enhancement of the archival heritage, which makes unpublished and unpublished documents accessible, attracting an audience of proximity” declares Mario Talarico, founder of the museum.
In fact, in addition to revealing the phases of the production machine, Archive Mabos actively involves visitors through different languages: from the artistic posters created by the illustrator and graphic designer Giuseppe Talarico to the sound experience “The rattles towards the borders” which, through the warm and evocative voice of Pierpaolo Capovilla and the sound vibrations of Giorgio Caporale, revives the sense of the journey and the Calabrians of the Giacomelli inspired by the poetic urgency of Franco Costabile, of which the museum holds a small nucleus.
“This is a path in figurative art which, especially among the new generations, stimulates a pure and profound knowledge of the places and poetry that resists the limits of time and the intrusions of the geographical borders” says Longo inviting everyone to visit the Mabos Archive exhibition to celebrate together the naturalistic and artistic heritage of the Sila.