MUSABA is located in the heart of Calabria, in Italy’s southernmost mainland province, Reggio Calabria. Sited in the Torbido River valley near the village of Mammola, MUSABA is ten kilometres uphill from the Ionian Sea and can be reached directly by the Ionio-Tirreno highway. A place of striking and unique character, MUSABA is situated in a vast open space in an ancient valley between the creeks and folds of the surrounding hills.
MUSABA is an open air museum, characterized by the principle of action and a truly scientific and productive park with a strong interactive programme.
MUSABA – Fondazione Spatari/Maas is a private institution, a non-profit creative and intellectual foundation, an integration of art, architecture, environment, archaeology, history, botany and biological farming and research centre relevant to the Mediterranean artistic-cultural heritage.
Created by artists Nik Spatari and Hiske Maas, the Spatari/Maas Foundation defines, activates, and realizes its purposes through innovative programmes at MUSABA.
In 1969 they decided to work on a global project involving the production of art in the direct context of its historical points of reference and its natural surroundings.
All projects and works have been esecuted under the direction of Nik Spatari and Hiske Maas.
The Park Museum Laboratory
Exponents of art-architecture-environment, the two artists gather their natural surroundings - the Torbido valley, the rivers Torbido and Neblà, the sheer drops of the highlands and the ancient monastery, and the new Wind Rose wing, the mediterranean gardens with their imposing site-specific works, the Art Residence Foresteria and the former railway station - and transform them into a single AMA-Ambiente-Mediterraneo-Art (Mediterranean Environment-Art) project. A process of integration between past and present which is extremely interesting and relevant, creating a unique park-museum-school-laboratory with great visual impact.
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