Castel dell'Ovo lights up with themes from the Smorfia and Neapolitan culture

Video projections will illuminate from December 22, 2020 to January 1, 2021 one of the symbols of Naples: Castel dell’Ovo. The installations projected on the famous monument were created by artist Franz Cerami in collaboration with students of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. The digital art project is characterized by very bright and vivid colors, from red to yellow, from orange to blue, and intends to propose a revisitation of thethemes of the Smorfia and Neapolitan culture. It is therefore a tribute to Neapolitan tradition through new technologies and digital.

The students were involved in the Digital Storytelling Lab workshop, promoted by the Voiello company and coordinated by Cerami himself.

“Naples is a city that has always been told, painted, sung about,” Cerami commented. “A city that constantly reworks shapes and colors. Which carries with it a great baggage of history and stories. A contemporary artist cannot fail to come to terms with this memory, to collect a material and immaterial cultural heritage, but to reintepret it in contemporary forms. This is the only way to keep memory alive: to innovate and reinterpret it. For this reason, I could not help but enthusiastically join the project, I could not help but take up the idea of creatively rewriting the icons and myths of the city of Naples through the creation of four works that will be screened in absolute premiere.”

“The subject of the art project,” says the artist, “is developed around the traditional symbols of Neapolitanism on the border between historical memory, present reality, and magical symbols. From the Siren Partenope to Virgil’s Egg, from Vesuvius to pyrotechnics, and Luminarie, to the processing of wheat, the primary and civilizing element of this land. And of course, what also convinced me was the cut of the project: the fact that the company wanted to involve an athenaeum such as the Suor Orsola Benincasa University and give space to students, to young people from Campania by letting them produce three installations that will flank mine.”

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Castel dell'Ovo lights up with themes from the Smorfia and Neapolitan culture

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