On the island, suspended between memory and the future, the Museum is the vital growth of the place it inhabits, it is the space for research, for the discovery of the diversity between cultures and individuals. The discourse on memory and time involves us making our island unique and mysterious, it defines and structures within that space of History and Memory represented by the Museum projected towards an active and contemporary approach.

The graphics of the early 1900s in Sardinia have had artists, among the most important interpreters of the languages ​​of engraving and woodcut, who have enjoyed international recognition.
For some time, in our research, we have defined our land as the Place of the sign; through the opening of art dialogues we retrace the memory of the island and tell its culture, capable of growth and elaboration of the future. Knowing our history, our artists, the cultural debate in its past and present articulation, becomes the indispensable element on which to build the future.

When we talk about engraving, not only the use and practice of engraving languages ​​is important but it is the concept of research that Casa Falconieri identifies and tells of its development and history; we always think that, beyond the easy appearances, it is not a question of isolated artists who work in the space of their studio, but of a flourishing of researches that expand their innovative potential by involving the artistic culture of the island. Experimentation in art make Sardinia, and the languages ​​of engraving, an international meeting point that opens up to different realities; we continue to explore our Place of Sign which has a solid past represented by a strong core of recognized artists including Mario Delitala.
The exhibition presents the historicized reality of the great artist Mario Delitala, a significant and recognized protagonist of the successful Sardinian artistic season which, in the first half of the 1900s, brought Sardinia into the heart of the Italian and international artistic debate.
We show a precious rarity, three large preparatory cartoons that the artist made for the mosaics of the Chamber of Commerce of Trapani. In cartoons, through the sign and second thoughts, it is possible to imagine the genesis of that great work that will become a mosaic and understand how Art is always project and not chance. The sign, descriptive and evocative, is an instrument and a tool in the storytelling where the domain of graphic and drawing procedures is always combined with poetics.
On display original etchings which in 1938 earned the Venice Biennale Award for engraving; these are woodcuts whose clear language in the definition of whites and blacks is more in keeping with the artist's poetics.
The exhibition itinerary is completed by the presence of xylographic matrices which represent a further key to understanding, useful for entering the world of engraving and understanding its languages.