Nivola Museum in Orani

On the recommendation of Matko Tomicic, Director of the LongHouse, we visited the Constantine Nivola Museum in Orani, a small mountain town. It was a complete delight - for its setting, its architecture and most of all for its wonderful collection of his work in painting, conceptual art and of course, sculpture. I took hundreds of photos but the vagaries of the internet (too complicated to explain - or for me to understand, I suppose) limit me to showing the following. FLASH. I solved some of the problem by mailing some more photos to myself. It's a cumbersome method but worth it.

The museum is set beautifully on a big hillside facing the town of Orani. It has hillside gardens dominated by one of his late sculptures set in a small pool and echoed in a metal wire outline at the other end of the pool.  Running throughout the gardens and exterior walkways are narrow channels with running water. A great experience.

Orani from the museum garden wall

Entry way

Water channels

On top of the garden

Sublime piece

Calder-influenced

Light and spacious galleries

Partial exterior

The sublime is worth repeating.

Entry area

Painting

City painting

Great ceramic works (2 closeups below)

Overpopulated Earth

American Flag

Star portion of flag

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