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| all images courtesy of Sophie Lepetit, as on her weblog see documentation |
The Giardino Sonoro is a park in San Sperate, a village in southern Sardinia.
This park can be seen as an art environment, since it contains a collection of stone structures, all made by hand by the same artist. Some of these structures have the special property of producing a musical sound when touched or struck in the right way;
Life and works
These stone structures were created by Pinuccio Sciola (1942-2016), who was born in San Sperate, where he also continued to live once he was an adult.
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He developed as an artist, got training in Madrid, Paris and Salzburg, and participated in the Venice Biennale.
Although this weblog in principle only focuses on non-professionals, it is primarily the unique musical qualities of his stone creations that provide the reason to devote attention in this blog to Sciola's work in stone,
The exception is also appropriate because he was deeply connected to his native Sardinia, and his artistic expressions were modest in nature and related to nature and to his native Sardinia.
This is also evident from the sculptural contribution he made from the 1960s onwards to the Giardino Sonore, a park that was the first in Sardinia to acquire an artistic character.
In 1968 Sciola was in Paris when the student uprising began, which spread to large parts of the population.
He was struck by the power and creativity of the events, and once back in San Sperate, he wanted to give his hometown the appearance of a museum city by painting walls with white lime and inviting artists to create murals on them.
He referred to those years as the Lime Years.
In 1996 Sciola began researching how sculptures might produce sounds.
So he selected primarily large pieces of basalt and volcanic stone.which are porous and in which a variety of grooves can be carved. These stones, thus processed, can produce special sounds upon touch.
The first musical stone that Sciola demonstrated in public was named Jazz Stone and was played at a jazz festival together with a trumpeter and a percussionist..
Pinuccio Sciola died on May 13, 2016.
Residents of San Sperate hung white sheets and curtains in front of their windows and balconies in his memory.
Documentation
* .Article (May 2026) on the weblog of Sophie Lepetit
* Article (September 2025) on newspaper Vanity Fair
* Article on Wikipedia
Video
* Video (published January 2019) with Sciola playing stones and scenes of the garden
Pinuccio Sciola
Garden with sounding stones
San Sperate, Sardinia, Italy
the public garden with sculptures can be visited freely
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