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Invitation
CAMORRA
2008
Monica Biancardi_Nostra Signora della Monnezza, 2008
Giuseppe di Guida_Sono nato in terra di camorra, 2008
Sebastiano Deva_ Camorra’s eye,, 2008 |
CAMORRA
the art exhibition
CURATED BY
Antonio Manfredi
20 June/20 July 2008
OPENING
Friday, June the 20th at 7.00 pm
THE ARTISTS
Afterall, Monica Biancardi, Raffaele Boemio, Piero
Chiariello, Cyop & Kaf, Fiorenzo
D’avino, Bruno De Stefano, Sebastiano Deva,
Giuseppe Di Guida, Mario Fabbroni, Luciano Ferrara,
Barbara La Ragione, Giacomo Montanaro, Walter Picardi,
Carmine Rezzuti, Sergio Riccio, Federica Rispoli
CONCEPT
“Fires set for unpaid protection money are no longer
sufficient, rubbish is not enough, we do not want only
the pictures of people shot dead during punishment
ambushes…we, the art folk, long for more. We want to
wake up people consciousness through unreal images and
by recording actions and behaviours that are as much
usual in our territory as to undertake universal value.
Abuse on weak people, social and political relationships
denoting the imposition by criminal entity, control on
life, on movement and on individual freedom from a
creature which jaws look impossible to escape: this and
much more is CAMORRA.
Who can better than 17 Neapolitan artists express on
this topic?
And, who can better than a border museum – as CAM –
arrange an exhibition on the social connotations of the
criminal bloodsucker gripping men?
The exhibition CAMORRA raised from the considerations by
Antonio Manfredi – exhibition curator and director of
CAM – and from fearing that impotence is able to take
the upper hand. For a concretely efficacious art, born
from Evil but detaching itself from it – June the 20th
at 7.00pm until July the 20th at CAM in Casoria.
The exhibited works will be the oneiric or ironic
visions of people experiencing on their own skin
restrictions and consequences of a mental status which
slips into social behaviour. How could you not think to
the rubbish flood Naples is in since months by looking
at the redeeming Virgin standing out of the coloured and
stinking heaps in the provoking work Nostra signora
della monnezza (Our Lady of Rubbish)? Or, how could you
not smile before the statue of Padre Pio at the top of a
mount of tires looking like he is trying to protect them
from fire-raiser vandals? The artistic perspectives are
dialoguing and confronting each other in an exhibition
aiming to witness the degrading background surrounding
us, those buildings, jails for the soul, in which
tragedies take place and where the secrets of a
persecution enduring in the human history are whispered
in the dark. A wall oppresses and occludes the vitality
of the mountain which serves as oleographic background
to the lack of development and growth of
never-been-children boys, forced to live according to
deviated models or in sick environments. Though the
Feroce felino (Wild feline), devouring everything, keeps
respect for the class by means of an ancient religion
symbolized by an hybrid being and from mysterious signs
of relationships of strength and imposition. Twisting
figures, as images reflected into the mirrors of
consciousness, appear as oneiric visions. An
institutionalized robbery – as the one in Cassa del
Mezzogiorno (Midday/Southern Italy Coffin) – becomes a
modern coffin in a gloomy work exposed on occasion of
the exhibition. The Candore dell’innocenza (Purity of
Innocence) of a prisoner overturns in the shoes of the
persecutor, while the ones knowing the reality fear it
and cover their eyes with their hands left still instead
than acting.
On occasion of the opening, artistic actions will take
place meanwhile words of journalists committed to the
topic will slide on the several screens as they turned
to creative writers for this occasion.
Press office: CAM_Graziella M. Geraci +393349399870
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