Site-specific collection

In the conceptual art, of which Sol LeWitt was one of the founding fathers, "the idea becomes the tool that produces art". In his famous Wall Drawings, the artist incorporates straight lines, often intersected, which fragment the space in a multitude of unpredictable directions.

Luciano Fabro is one of the leading exponents of Arte Povera, an artist who has always been attentive to experiment with iconographies and materials in order to stimulate the audience with new perceptives and involvements in relation to the space. The site-specific work created for the Madre museum invites the visitor to direct his gaze to the celestial vault.

Jeff Koons’ work aims at communicating with the masses, through a visual vocabulary which is extrapolated from advertising and from the entertainment industry, bringing to an extreme level the fine line between artistic language and popular culture. The large canvases on the walls of the Madre museum are reminiscent of the great narrative cycles of ancient frescoes and reinterpret in a critical key the practice and the dynamics of contemporary means of communication through the tradition of art.

In the hole on the floor in his room at Madre museum, Anish Kapoor conveys the viewer's gaze towards the infinite and towards the bowels of "Mother Earth", with great effect of displacement.

In the site-specific installation created by Jannis Kounellis for the Madre museum, the space of the room is longitudinally blocked by a large iron structure, which lets the light filter through a colored glass, as in a contemporary version of the cathedral’s windows. A large rusty anchor rests its weight, even metaphorically, on the floor, evoking the historical role of Naples and its relationship with the sea.

Giulio Paolini subtracts uniqueness from the work to suggest infinite possible existences. In his site-specif installation at the Madre museum, the artist analyzes the relationship between the work, the exhibition space and the reaction of the viewer.