Vernissage: Thursday 19th July 2012 at 7 PM
Via Costantinopoli 53 - Piazza Bellini 59
Via Costantinopoli 53 - Piazza Bellini 59
"Mirabili Fantasie" ("Admirable Fantasies"): works by Jackson Pollock, Joan Mirò e Lucio Fontana will be inaugurated at the NEA (via Costantinopoli 53 - piazza Bellini 59) on 19th July at 7 p.m. The exhibition, organized by Pasquale Lettieri, will be open until 30th September (the Nea will be closed from 13th to 26th August 2012). On the occasion of the opening, Peppe Capasso will introduce a minimal-theatre action, "Dido Abandoned", which will be held at the Nea spaces on September.
Naples appears like an emblematic condition of modernity, an inextricable mix of ascents and falls "contamined" by several influences. On the one hand Naples is a place of glory, on the other hand is a place of martyrdrom in a plot which has no clean borders but many cultural "contaminations". This works' collection is one of the highest peaks of a dialectics which has always seen Naples as a centre of the contemporary art phenomenology, since the Historical Avant-gardes.
Jackson Pollock, Joan Mirò and Lucio Fontana present an unequivocal common feature: the progress. Mirò, with semplicity and strength, devotes himself to the figures' decomposition. Pollock goes away from the "easel's styles" and gives importance to action painting. Fontana cuts his canvas as a mental irreverent act.
The second postwar has brought many experiments of contemporary art. In the triumph of conceptual art, made by minimalism, almost invisible signs and gestures, during the twentieth century there was a periodicity between hot and cold periods: from the 20th century Futurism to the mid-century Abstractionism and to the 60s Pop-Art, from the 70s pauperistic Conceptualism to a painting, sculpture, cinema and theatre's return in the 80s.
This isn't a pure illusion but an experience which takes in consideration the new connotations of richness, poverty, social mobility and stagnation. A great season of culture, productiveness and economy which has rendered Naples not only the sad city described by Anna Maria Ortese but a world cultural crossroads as New York, Paris and other great metropolis in the world.
To exhibit "Admirable Fantasies" in Naples means to verify the extraordinary strength of the intelligence and the work, linked with art and technology, in tune with the modern category of artists who are strong defenders of an holy union between theory and praxis and continuous founders and re-founders of their genealogy of vagrants and nomads who want to bring light to wide spaces and secret places of life.
Title: "Mirabili fantasie" ("Admirable Fantasies")
Autori: Jackson Pollock, Joan Miró, Lucio Fontana, Peppe Capasso
Organized by: Pasquale Lettieri
Base: Nea - via Costantinopoli 53 - piazza Bellini 59 - Naples
Inauguration: TThursday 29th July
Date: 19th July 2012 - 30th September 2012
Opening Time: from Monday to Saturday: 10:30/14.00 - 16.00/19. 00
Nea will be closed from 13th to 26th August 2012.
Admission: free