The Venue
The eight sculptures located in front of the building of the Consiglio regionale della Sardegna were realized on the occasion of the urban reorganization of the square, they are the last work by Costantino Nivola, who died in 1988. Invited to create a work for the new building by architect Mario Fiorentino, which inaugurated in 1988, Costantino Nivola firstly defined the identity of the building by designing a gray granite floor, the so-called “salt lake”, which enhances the outdoor space and integrates the works in the architectural context. The figures carved in marble represent two recurring motifs in the artist’s poetics: the archetypal images of the “Constructor” and the “Mother”, represent the masculine and feminine, typical of the iconography of Sardegna since the Neolithic.