Beuys e Napoli

One hundred years after his birth, with the exhibition Beuys and Naples on the cultural heritage of the German artist's transits in Naples and Italy between 1971 and 1985.

Casa Morra, outdoor (2021/2021) by photo Amedeo Benestante ©Fondazione MorraFondazione Morra

Five films screened in succession in the spaces of the Mario Franco Archives: the Neapolitan director is responsible for the most complete filmic documentation of the collaboration between Lucio Amelio and Beuys starting from the first exhibition La rivoluzione siamo noi (1971).

Casa Morra, Beuys e Napoli (2021/2022) by ph. Amedeo Benestante ©Fondazione MorraFondazione Morra

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the program will open with the homonymous film that will be screened together with Der Tisch, a film donated by Beuys to the Neapolitan director in the original 16mm format, which documents one of his first actions at the Düsseldorf Academy.

Casa Morra, Beuys e Napoli (2021/2022) by ph. Amedeo Benestante ©Fondazione MorraFondazione Morra

Also on display is a selection of multiples, functional to the dissemination strategy of the wider Beuysian project of "social sculpture": for the German artist the problem of "giving shape" has nothing to do with a stylistic research within the space of autonomy of art.

Casa Morra, Beuys e Napoli (2021/2022) by photo Amedeo Benestante ©Fondazione MorraFondazione Morra

A photographic series by Gerardo Di Fiore testifies to the incursion of Beuys in the context of the action "Hic Sunt Leones" by the collective Galleria Inesistente, and offers, at the same time, a broader view on the stratification of the Neapolitan artistic and cultural environment between the sixties and seventies.

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