Opening: June 21, 2013, 7pm
Museo Madre
via Settembrini 79, Napoli
T 081 19313016
Thomas Bayrle
all-in-one
22 June–14 October 2013
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with WIELS-Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, is the largest retrospective ever made, and the first in an Italian public institution, devoted to Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937), one of the pioneers and leading exponents of European Pop Art, whose artistic language combines Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Op Art, so offering a true epitome of the neo-avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century. With more than 200 works, from 1960 to the present, the exhibition offers a powerful portrait of contemporary mass humanity, with its layered and hybrid identity, shaped by a continuous overlapping between consumerism and ecology, propaganda and protest, sex and spirituality, religion and pornography.
Mario Garcia Torres
the Boetti lesson (searching for the one hotel, Kabul)
22 June–30 September 2013
The exhibition brings together for the first time the works—videos, photographs, environmental installations, works on paper—by Mario Garcia Torres (Monclova, 1975) devoted to Alighiero Boetti and to One Hotel, the guest house Boetti opened in Kabul in 1971 and which Garcia Torres later restored and reactivated in the occasion of dOCUMENTA (13). By working on information not contained in the official art history, including interviews, live testimony, and even research on Google Maps, Garcia Torres presents an intimate and personal “lesson of Boetti,” also comprising a number of Boetti’s works dating from the 1960s to the 1990s, specially selected for the exhibition. In this way Garcia Torres evokes, in a subtle exercise on the dopppelganger, a continuous dialogue between self and the other, past and present, guest and host.
Giulia Piscitelli
intermedium
22 June–30 September 2013
The exhibition of the work of Giulia Piscitelli (Naples, 1965) is entitled intermedium, a Latin word which the artist interprets in the sense of staying in the middle, between the limits of space and time that determine a creative process not yet completed, open to further possibilities. The exhibition brings together works produced since the early 90s, many of them new, which emphasize different aspects of a research that ranges from discolored paintings on fabric to photographic works, site specific installations and video files. These works reveal the paradoxical vitality of an oppositional profile of aesthetic and poetic struggle, richly realistic but working at the limits of the surreal and exploring the essential significance of creating art in a human and social condition that seems to be able to almost do without art.
Per_forming a collection #1
22 June–in progress
Per_forming a collection #1 is the first chapter in a project intended to develop over a whole year and devoted to the progressive formation of the permanent collection of the Museo Madre. In this first chapter, diffused throughout the museum, the focus is on artists of different generations whose works have in common a participatory character of action and shared reflection, in the forms of text, performance, action, theatrical staging, happening, video and film installation, and the collective project. The body in action and the gesture of writing as an articulation of thought are the common denominators of this first chapter.
Progetto XXI
Christian Waldvogel, Eric Wesley
19 June–27 July 2013 (at: Fondazione Morra Greco, L.go Avellino, 17 – Napoli)
Featuring new solo projects by Christian Waldvogel (Zurich) and Eric Wesley (Los Angeles), Fondazione Morra Greco is proud to present the second installment of a series of exhibitions entitled Hybrid Naples:L’ordine delle idee deve procedere secondo l’ordine delle cose, curated by Jörg Heiser.
Waldvogel, in homage to the great philosopher Giordano Bruno who studied in Naples, will present a machine producing planets; and Wesley will exhibit a full knight’s suit of armor built accurately to his idiosyncratic specifications.
