Procida exhibit, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, showcases island's beauty
DAVID PETRIE
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4 September 2021
Pastel painted houses of fisherfolk on Procida
PROCIDA -- ITALICS, the first consortium in Italy to unite more than 60 of the country’s most influential galleries of contemporary, modern and pre-modern art, has presented its first in-person project -- PANORAMA | Procida, an island-wide exhibition on Procida (off the coast of Naples, Italy) from Thursday, Sept 2 to Sunday, Sept.5 2021, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programmes, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
This is this first edition of an annual exhibition series in which, again with the title PANORAMA, ITALICS will be showcasing some of the most fascinating places in the Italian landscape, creating art itineraries that, offline, will continue the journey that began in October 2020 on the web pages of the Italics.art platform, the organizers said.
PROCIDA -- ITALICS, the first consortium in Italy to unite more than 60 of the country’s most influential galleries of contemporary, modern and pre-modern art, has presented its first in-person project -- PANORAMA | Procida, an island-wide exhibition on Procida (off the coast of Naples, Italy) from Thursday, Sept 2 to Sunday, Sept.5 2021, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programmes, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
This is this first edition of an annual exhibition series in which, again with the title PANORAMA, ITALICS will be showcasing some of the most fascinating places in the Italian landscape, creating art itineraries that, offline, will continue the journey that began in October 2020 on the web pages of the Italics.art platform, the organizers said.
"PANORAMA | Procida" is an itinerary that explores the island's powerful beauty, where art and nature design a new landscape that includes the dimension of experience. A shared happening that involves the entire area and its citizens, planned in dialogue with Agostino Riitano, Director of Procida, the Italian Capital of Culture 2022.
The exhibition itinerary spans five centuries of art history, from antiquity to the contemporary, with a special focus on Italian works and more specifically on the Neapolitan area, bringing together over 50 works by the artists Marisa Albanese (Naples, Italy, 1947), Giovanni Anselmo (Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy, 1934), Salvatore Arancio (Catania, Italy, 1974), Gianni Asdrubali (Tuscania, Italy, 1955), Rosa Barba (Agrigento, Italy, 1972), Noah Barker (California, USA, 1991 ), Per Barclay (Oslo, Norway, 1955), Robert Barry (New York, USA, 1936), Elisabetta Benassi (Rome, Italy, 1966), Walead Beshty (London, GB, 1976), Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1938), Giulia Cenci (Cortona, Italy, 1988), Chen Zhen (Shanghai, China 1955 - Paris, France, 2000), Antonio Della Guardia (Salerno, Italy, 1990), Fortunato Depero (Fondo, Italy, 1892 - Rovereto, Italy, 1960), Patrizio Di Massimo (Jesi, Italy, 1983), Flavio Favelli (Florence, Italy, 1967), Luca Francesconi (Mantua , Italy, 1979), Lucio Fontana (Rosario di Santa Fé, Argentina, 1899 - Comabbio, Italy, 1968), Mario García Torres (Monclova, Mexico, 1975), Igor Grubić (Zagreb, Croatia, 1969), Christian Holstad (Anaheim , USA, 1972), Paolo Icaro (Turin, Italy, 1936), Massimo Listri (Florence, Italy, 1953), Nate Lowman (Las Vegas, USA, 1979), Ibrahim Mahama (Tamale, Ghana, 1987), Marcello Maloberti ( Casalpusterlengo, Italy, 1966), Domenico Antonio Mancini (Naples, Italy, 1980), Darius Mikšys (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1969), Daniele Milvio (Genoa, Italy, 1988), Alek O. (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981), Luigi Ontani (Grizzana Morandi, Italy, 1943), Adrian Paci (Scutari, Albania, 1969), Mimmo Paladino (Paduli, Italy, 1948), Giulio Paolini (Genoa, Italy, 1940), Francesco Pedraglio (Como, Italy, 1981), Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, Italy, 1947), Giulia Piscitelli (Naples, Italy, 1965), Nicola Samorì (Forlì, Italy, 1977), Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1973), Alberto Savinio (Athens, Greece, 1891 - Rome, Italy, 1952), Marinella Senatore (Cava de' Tirreni, Italy, 1977), Francesco Simeti (Palermo, Italy, 1968) , Sissi (Bologna, Italy, 1977), Filippo Tagliolini (Fogliano di Cascia, Italy, 1745 - Naples, Italy, 1809), Fredrik Værslev (Moss, Norway, 1979), Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, USA, 1928 - New York, USA, 1987), Heimo Zobernig (Mauthen, Austria, 1958), Damon Zucconi (Bethpage, USA, 1985) and a work by Matthias Stomer (1600, Amersfoort, Netherlands - 1650, Sicily) from the collections of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
On Saturday Sept. 4, the streets of Procida were filled with the voice of Elisabetta Benassi who, with her performance Ordine e Disordine (2015/2021), aboard an Apecar moving through the streets of the historic center, was reciting the titles of some works by Alighiero Boetti, in particular the tapestries, as if they were political slogans.
In the meantime, a group of Procida's citizens were leaving their homes with a chair in hand, one by one heading towards Piazza Massimo Troisi, where they were taking their seats, getting up only to greet each and every newcomer.
These performers, directed by Adrian Paci, will re-enact an updated version of the famous action One and Twenty-Four Chairs (2021), forming a small impromptu community in memory of that very simple gesture that once characterized moments of socialization in most Italian municipalities.
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