(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 17 - Bonaria Manca, the "shepherd" artist of Sardinian origins, was 95 years old, who died in the night between 16 and 17 October in Tuscania in Lazio Tuscia, where she left her house museum.
"From Sardinia to Tuscia the imperturbable and out of time Bonaria Manca has left us, in the paintings and on the walls of her house, the dream of a world she lived and we lost, living it for us and transferring it to painting. For this we will be forever grateful to her. "comments VittorioSgarbi on learning of the atypical artist's death.
To announce the announcement of his death, the municipal administration of Tuscany.
Self-taught artist, over the years he had transformed his apartment into a small museum, The House of Symbols: on all the walls, strictly hand-painted, scenes of peasant life, the sea, the washerwomen at the river are depicted.
And again, animals, religious characters and surreal figures on the border between reality and fantasy.
Crossing those rooms means making a journey that starts from the childhood spent in his native Orune, in Sardinia, up to Tuscania, where Bonaria Manca moved in 1957. His works have been exhibited not only in Rome, Turin, Viterbo and Cagliari but also in Paris , Lyon, Geneva, Thessaloniki, Marseille and the Netherlands.
In 2000, she was appointed Unesco ambassador.
"Bonaria is supported by an extraordinary multifaceted spontaneism that makes her live in the present with her own child world", said Sgarbi, who had participated with the French cinematographer Jean-Marie Drot in 2015 in the making of an award-winning documentary on the artist's life, The Isoladi Bonaria, by Jo Lattari under the direction of Luigi Simone.
Always in November 2015 the Ministry of Cultural Heritage decreed the artist's studio of the Casa dei Simboli (the documentary Island of Bonaria) and today it is a House Museum.
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