After being nominated as Italian Capital of Culture 2022, the first widespread exhibition arrives in Procida

On the island of Procida, Italian Capital of Culture 2022, the widespread exhibition PANORAMA | Procida, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, associate director and curator for visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will be held from September 2 to 5, 2021. The event is the first project in the presence of ITALICS, the consortium that brings together for the first time in Italy more than sixty of the most influential galleries of ancient, modern and contemporary art active throughout the peninsula. In fact, this is the first edition of an exhibition event that each year will tell the story of some of the most fascinating locations in the Italian landscape.

PANORAMA | Procida is an itinerary to discover the beauty of Procida that will involve the entire territory and its inhabitants, built in dialogue with Agostino Riitano, director of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022.

The exhibition will span five centuries of art history, from antiquity to the contemporary, with great attention to Italian production and a specific focus on the Neapolitan context. It will bring together over fifty works by artists Marisa Albanese, Giovanni Anselmo, Salvatore Arancio, Gianni Asdrubali, Rosa Barba, Noah Barker, Per Barclay, Robert Barry, Elisabetta Benassi, Walead Beshty, Daniel Buren, Giulia Cenci, Chen Zhen, Antonio Della Guardia, Fortunato Depero, Patrizio Di Massimo, Flavio Favelli, Luca Francesconi , Lucio Fontana, Mario García Torres, Igor Grubic, Christian Holstad, Paolo Icaro, Massimo Listri, Nate Lowman, Ibrahim Mahama, Marcello Maloberti, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Darius Mikšys, Daniele Milvio, Alek O., Luigi Ontani, Adrian Paci, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Francesco Pedraglio, Giuseppe Penone, Giulia Piscitelli, Nicola Samorì, Tomás Saraceno, Alberto Savinio, Marinella Senatore, Francesco Simeti, Sissi, Filippo Tagliolini, Fredrik Værslev, Andy Warhol, Heimo Zobernig, Damon Zucconi, and a work by Matthias Stomer from the collections of the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco.

The exhibition aims to recount the variety of styles, materials, compositions and formal translations that characterized the creativity of each period. The route along the entire island includes some works that blend with the natural and human landscape, others that require the direct involvement of the population or the visitor, and two special projects that take the form of ’exhibitions within the exhibition.’

The first special project came about as part of the collaboration with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte: curator Vincenzo de Bellis invited director Sylvain Bellenger to select a work from within the collections of the Neapolitan institution to build an unprecedented dialogue with Concetto spaziale. The End of God (1963) by Lucio Fontana. The choice by the Neapolitan institution, in response to this invitation, is an important painting from the first half of the 17th century, namely theAdoration of the Shepherds by Matthias Stomer, a native of the Netherlands and part of those Nordic painters working in Rome in the 17th century in the wake of Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti. The two works will be presented in the chapel of Santa Maria Regina della Purità in the complex of the former Conservatorio delle Orfane in Terra Murata.

The second special initiative is Italics d’Oro, through which a new exhibition tradition is inaugurated that will celebrate at each edition of PANORAMA a different artist who has intensely experienced the area. The first protagonist of Italics d’Oro will be Daniel Buren, Golden Lion at the 1986 Venice Art Biennale, who has had a very special relationship with the island for more than 30 years. For this occasion, the artist has created an unprecedented work, with his visual instrument declining in multiple media. Entitled Autour d’une Exposition travaux in situ pour Italics (2021), Buren’s work will be a constant presence accompanying the exhibition throughout its duration.

The entire exhibition will take place at various exhibition sites spread across the island, including public and private architecture, churches, historic buildings and popular areas, extending from the Marina Grande port to the ancient fortified village of Terra Murata. The Civic Museum will bring together a group of works that, from the 18th century to the present, tell the story of Naples and its islands. The prison will host works that evoke themes of constraint and isolation. Around the Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo will be concentrated works of a mystical or spiritual nature. Three of Procida’s famous terraces will host sculptural installations. Finally, a core of site-specific works will be inserted into the urban fabric, and interventions mostly signed by younger artists will experiment with multiple modes of expression using sound, radio-transmission, digital, and storytelling; the five performances by artists Robert Barry, Elisabetta Benassi, Igor Grubic, Marcello Maloberti and Adrian Paci also fall within this scope.

In particular, on Thursday, Sept. 2 at 5 p. m., Robert Barry will kick off PANORAMA | Procida by re-enacting for the first time on this occasion a historic performance from 1969: Inert Gas Series/Argon/at 5 p.m. on September 2nd 2021 14 liters of Argon were returned to the atmosphere (2021) injects odorless, colorless gas into the atmosphere from an unknown location on the island. The action, as it did in ’69, will leave no traces other than posters reproducing the location of the cylinder.Next, on Thursday, Sept. 2, and then again throughout the days of the exhibition (Friday, Sept. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon and Saturday, Sept. 4, from 10 a.m. to noon), Marcello Maloberti will carry out a traveling intervention, distributing one of his famous Martellate entitled Malincuore (2021). The poster will pass from hand to hand, among residents and tourists, and will make its way into the windows of Procida’s stores and establishments. On Friday, Sept. 3, at 5 p.m., Igor Grubic will create a wall artwork in the village of Terra Murata: Little Quote Lesson, 2021 reproduces a verse by the supreme poet, Dante Alighieri, reflecting his commitment to stir knowledge, inviting it to develop critical thinking. Also scheduled for Sept. 3 is the blessing of the work Dear World (2021) by Patrizio Di Massimo. The painting, which depicts the Archangel Michael the patron saint of the island of Procida, will become part of the decorative set of the Abbey of St. Michael the Archangel and will be permanently displayed outside the sacred building. On Saturday, Sept. 4, Elisabetta Benassi will declaim the titles of some of Alighiero Boetti’s works, particularly tapestries, as political slogans in an Apecar performance (2015 / 2021) through the streets of the historic center. At the same time, Adrian Paci’s performance will take place: Procidan citizens will come out of their homes with a chair in hand and head for Massimo Troisi Square, where they will take their seats, getting up only to greet a newcomer on each occasion. Directed by Adrian Paci, they will re-actualize the famous action One and Twenty-Four Chairs (2021) by forming a small extemporaneous community in memory of that very simple gesture that once characterized the social moments of most Italian municipalities.

Thanks to the close collaborations in the Naples area and the support of its partners, PANORAMA | Procida will extend beyond the island’s borders with the aim of offering as complete an experience as possible of the territory’s cultural dimension. In Naples, from September 3 to 5, 2021, the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee - Madre museum, the Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte will offer a calendar of free guided tours (reservations required while places last, info and how to register at italics.art/panorama_procida/).

There will be no shortage of moments of shared reflection with the participation of geographer Franco Farinelli who, in dialogue with Andrea Anastasio, an author who works with various media in the fields of design, architecture and visual arts, will be the protagonist of a conversation open to the public on Friday, September 3, at Terrazza di Terra Murata entitled Art and Territory. Ideas for a true integration. Curator Vincenzo de Bellis and the director of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022, Agostino Riitano, will moderate the meeting.

PANORAMA | Proc ida takes inspiration from one of the main assumptions of the Procida 2022 director’s project: “The island is a place of exploration, experimentation and knowledge, it is a model of contemporary cultures. It preserves the meanings of existing and yet it is involved in the processes of identity construction/de-construction, abandonment/remotement, loss and the construction of ties: the island is a risk of separateness and confinement; the island is an opportunity for beginning and refounding, rediscovery and regeneration, old and new; the island is the elsewhere par excellence, hiding treasures or being a destination for escape, an expedient in the search for happiness.”

“Its experiential mode, far from wandering around increasingly constrained by rules of separation from the works in museums,” says exhibition curator Vincenzo de Bellis, "has the characteristics of a new opportunity to have a truly close and direct involvement with the works. Too often in the recent past we have seen how attempts to reconcile the aesthetic aspect of art with the social aspect have sometimes gone to the detriment of the aesthetic and many other times to the detriment of the social. Panorama wants to rebalance this dynamic, bringing the aesthetic value of art to be truly inclusive, sustainable and in a relationship of mutual exchange with the local area."

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After being nominated as Italian Capital of Culture 2022, the first widespread exhibition arrives in Procida

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