Opening time:
Tuesday to Saturday: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday: 4.00 p.m - 7.00 p.m.
Center of contemporary art
Founded in 2014, the Ange Leccia art center is situated in the heart of the village in the Conti house, purchased by the municipality, a family residence that is made up of five rooms, that is to say two cellars and three rooms transformed into a white cube.
Because of the policy specific to Leccia, the art center is above all dedicated to images in movement, like a tool to produce and diffuse international contemporary creations, while privileging connections with the island’s community.
It is therefore equipped with video-projectors in the cellars and monitors in the rooms upstairs. The center’s ambition is to raise awareness among the island’s population of contemporary creations by exposing the work of Ange Leccia but also of other internationally known artists. Through his residence program, he also hopes to give artists the possibility of discovering Corsica and its rich culture.
Open to all at no cost from June to August.
Ange LECCIA
He is originally from Oletta through his father, Luc Leccia. Ange Leccia lives between Paris and Corsica. Internationally famous, the Corsican artist has been developing his artistic works for more than thirty years. His creations are exposed just as well in France as abroad. Throughout his very sensual works, he plunges us into the diversity and effervescence of contemporary art, where he deals with the relationship between nature and technology, based above all, on emotions. Corsica remains a source of inspiration for him and several of his creations have been carried out in the Cap, especially Nuit bleue, a film that came out in 2011.
Open from June to August
Opening time:
Tuesday of Saturday 2.30pm-6.30pm
Sunday: 3.30pm-6.30pm
Cultural wealth and religious mysteries characterize Oletta and invite you to unlock the secrets of the sacred arts.
It is in the only nave of Santa Croce chapel that 1000 remarkable pieces from Cap Corse, Nebbiu and Custera are virtually exposed. For this artistic trip in three dimensions, the latest virtual technologies were used.
First of all, you travel through walls of stereoscopic images that allow you to discover and admire the monuments and churches from a tridimensional perspective.
Then, a film accompanied with religious music and chants composed like an audio-visual poem, paints a picture of religious ceremonies.
The celebration of Our Lady of Mercy every three years, the procession of Cerca… Finally, the trip finishes with a visit to the heart of a computer terminal that contains the complete inventory of the territory’s religious heritage.
The museum also offers a part composed of religious objects (capes, chalices, procession lanterns, liturgical clothes…)
It is also possible to discover important religious figures who left their mark on history such as Monseigneur Natali, author of one of the reference texts on the Corsican revolution: Dinsinganno intorno alla Guerra di Corsica or la Monaca, Pascal Paoli’s famous “secret agent” nun.
After having accomplished this symbolic trip that enables you to unlock the secret of the territory’s sacred arts, nobody doubts there is a desire to explore all the wonders of the territory’s religious heritage, an essential component of Corsica’s cultural heritage.
Open to all at no cost from June 1st to August 31 th
As part of its policy to enhance the national and universal cultural wealth, the municipality decided to create a partnership with Professor Yves Maze, a museum of music history presenting an illustrated chronology of European music through the works of the most famous composers produced by the Western civilization from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. Monody and polyphony, baroque, classic, romantic and modern music are to be discovered in this place.
It is a new pedagogical tool meant to stimulate everyone’s awareness, young and old, of the history of arts, by focusing their attention on the art that many consider to be the greatest: music.