Doni. Authors from Campania
Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection
Painting, sculpture, performance art, video, installations, photography: a cross-section of Campania’s most spontaneous and contemporary creativity through the works of 143 artists
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| Madre · museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples |
A cross-section of Campania’s most spontaneous and contemporary creativity through the works of 143 artists: Imago Mundi pays tribute to Campania with Doni, an exhibition that will be on show in Naples from 12th April to 8th May, at the Madre, Campania’s regional contemporary art museum, one of the leading cultural institutions in Europe.
A land inhabited for thousands of years by a succession of different peoples and cultures, from the Greeks to the Etruscans and the Romans, from the Byzantines to the Lombards, from the Normans to the Spanish, Campania today is a lively, surprising and intriguing melting pot of these diverse historic, cultural and artistic roots.
As such, for the first time, Imago Mundi has decided to dedicate a chapter of its story exclusively to a single region. In “Doni”, contaminations and references, connections and the nomadic manifestations of an ancient and unique cultural experience coexist in the modernity of the artistic offering of Campania’s contemporary artistic scene, whose heart lies in a Naples nourished by original contributions from the areas around it.
Painting, sculpture, performance art, video, installations, photography: multiple art forms are present and explored in this collection, which ideally revolves around the concept of the “gift”: the gift of individual works from the artists is a counterpart to the gift of acceptance into the global and democratic kaleidoscope of Imago Mundi, where the beauty and uniqueness of the individual works shine out, and at the same time, enjoy the resonance of the colourful, authentic and impassioned mosaic of which they are part, in accordance with the spirit and the idea of the project itself.