On the occasion of Gibellina Capitale italiana dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026, the Museo delle Trame Mediterranee of the Fondazione Orestiadi, presents the exhibition “Colloqui: Carla Accardi, Letizia Battaglia, Renata Boero, Isabella Ducrot, Nanda Vigo,” curated by Cristina Costanzo and Enzo Fiammetta. The exhibition stages an unprecedented dialogue between the works, languages and memories of five figures who are fundamental to Gibellina’s cultural and artistic history, emphasizing the anticipatory power of women’s artistic work for the identity and history of that community.
The exhibition brings together more than forty works conceived and created in a chronological span from 1950 to 2025.
Nanda Vigo’s works testify to the deep rootedness of her research in the historical-artistic, urban and architectural fabric of Gibellina, which is manifested in her interventions in the city: the cippus for the toponymy, Anthropomorphic Traces, urban installations as tangible signs of her care for the theme of recovering fragments, and the project of the church of Jesus and Mary.
His works in the exhibition, made in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, trace this path in their multiple references of form, meaning and perspective. Trigger of the space, Light Progressions. Homage to Manzoni , the Chronotypes, Light Project, along with the prototype for the armchair Due Più and, again, with Jungle, which the artist donates to the Orestiadi Foundation, where also his iconic intervention in one of the ceilings of the Museum of Mediterranean Plots is located, represent his continuous trespassing into the environment and his unstoppable and always free crossing thresholds and boundaries between languages and disciplines.