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July 29, 2024

Marinella Senatore in Naples – until 24 October 2024

On Thursday, 25 July, two monumental new light sculptures by Marinella Senatore were inaugurated in Rotonda Armando Diaz in Naples, framing an awe-inspiring dancefloor. This public art project was launched by a School of Narrative Dance performance. On Saturday, 27 July, Collezione Agovino presented Senatore’s solo exhibition There is so much we can learn from the sun, showing new site-specific works by the artist. That evening, a new performative act by the School of Narrative Dance animated the Chiesa delle Scalze and the surrounding spaces.

Marinella Senatore, “Io Contengo Moltitudini”, 2024, Napoli, Rotonda Diaz. Foto di Annalisa Di Filippo, Francesca Iaccarino, Alessandro Pugliese (Accademia di Belle Arti, Napoli)

Marinella Senatore For Naples
I Contain Multitudes
Naples, Rotonda Diaz
25 July to 24 October 2024
curated by Vincenzo Trione

 

 

On 25 July, in Naples, the first event for Napoli Contemporanea 2024 opened, the programme of exhibitions and installations promoted by Mayor Gaetano Manfredi and curated by Vincenzo Trione, the mayor’s advisor for contemporary art and museum activities. The programme promoted by the Municipality of Naples in 2023 had as its protagonists Antonio Marras at the Rampe del Salvatore and Vico San Pietro a Majella, Michelangelo Pistoletto in Piazza Municipio, and Francesco Vezzoli in the prisons of Castel Nuovo. Marinella Senatore was invited to intervene in a location of the city, the Rotonda Diaz on the Neapolitan seafront, with the installation entitled Io contengo moltitudini. This luminous diptych was conceived in dialogue with the square, overlooking the seafront. Two light sculptures are united by a dancefloor, a space inviting collective participation. The first sculpture reproduces the structure of a choir inspired by ephemeral Baroque scenes; the second, at the base, has a square platform, on which stands a tree-like construction consisting of 16 signs arranged in a cone. Recovering expressions from the vernacular tradition, some signs display phrases selected together with associations and school groups. The two works are connected by a platform composed of a dance-carpet crossed by footprints and dance steps.

 

MARINELLA SENATORE
“There is so much we can learn from the sun”
Opening Saturday 27 July 2024 – 7.30 pm
Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze
Salita Pontecorvo 65, Napoli

 

 

Marinella Senatore  presents a new exhibition project and a new stage of The School of Narrative Dance, the free traveling school created by the artist to propose a horizontal and emancipatory educational system. Continuing to promote the artistic practices that activate creative and social processes to create new visions of the present and the future, Collezione Agovino decided to support this beautiful new artistic project by Marinella Senatore, together with Mazzoleni Gallery.

 

The exhibition, titled There is so much we can learn from the sun, opened on July 27 at Le Scalze, a social space already close to the collection. It also featured a performance by The School of Narrative Dance, in which dancers, singers, athletes, marching bands and musicians, also from Le Scalze took part.

“There is so much we can learn from the sun”, Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples Photos by Mazen Jannoun - Courtesy of the Artist and Mazzoleni, London - Torino

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