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Arte Povera più Azioni Povere 1968

11.11.11 | 20.02.12

In October of 1968 a young couple of collectors from Salerno, Marcello and Lia Rumma, asked Germano Celant – a twenty-eight years old art historian who was already active in the world of Avantgarde art – to curate an artistic event that would be defined today as an exhibition-happening. ...

Accessible from the Cafeteria courtyard (Pawnshop courtyard) that leads to vico Donnaregina, the 14th-century church of S. Maria Donnaregina is a prominent evidence of medieval times in Naples. In the 17th century, when the church of the same name overlooking piazza di Donnaregina was built, it was deconsecrated and closed to the public, as it was annexed to the cloister. Today the church – which since 1969 has been part of the Graduate course on monument restauration at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federico II University – can be visited during exhibitions and events organized by the Madre Museum, being used as an additional exhibition space, one of rare beauty and with a great evocative power.

The church belongs to an ancient convent complex founded by the Swabians in the XIII century, destroyed by the earthquake of 1293, and reconstructed and enlarged in 1325 by Queen Mary of Hungary, the wife of Charles II of Anjou. The building is preceded by a cloister characterized by a splendid lacunar executed in the early 16th century by a carver from Bergamo, Pietro Belverte. Designed by an anonymous Angevin architect – probably Lando di Pietro from Siena – the gothic church is designed, in compliance with the Franciscan system, as a simple hall with trusses, an apse with a pentagonal plan, ogival stained glass windows and a ribbed cross vault. It houses the splendid marble sepulchre of the magnanimous Queen, by Tino di Camaino and Gagliardo Primario (1325-26) as well as frescoes of paramount importance in the history 14th-century painting in Naples. The choir of the Clares – which, like the matronea and the palatine tribune, is an elevated space obtained from a tripartition of the hall – houses the largest cycle of 14th-century frescoes in Naples, attributed to Pietro Cavallini and Filippo Rusuti (1317-23 ca.). Moreover, it houses frescoes from the Loffredo Chapel, which haven’t been attributed nor dated as of yet.

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Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard. Repetition is truth. Via Dolorosa

16.04.11 | 04.07.11

A series of 14 paintings by the British artist Rachel Howard which were commissioned by the Murderme collection. The series is based on the Stations of the Cross but is also a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses and people's capability for cruelty towards each other. ...

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Napoli crucifixed

12.06.08 | 29.09.08

Earthquakes, eruptions of Vesuvius, plagues, garbage crisis, bloody Camorra wars: in Naples, all the natural and man-made disasters over the centuries take on the character of essential events. Here, a metaphorical leap takes the truth of facts beyond reality. It is as if the city’s ...

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Jimmie Durham

26.03.08 | 26.05.08

 “Per il progetto al MADRE, Durham presenta tre installazioni provenienti dalla Fondazione Morra Greco, tra cui un’inedita realizzata con cubi di cemento armato che creano un’immaginaria foresta in scala umana inaridita da una misteriosa pioggia acida. Delle altre due The "Petrified” ...

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Robert Wilson

Voom Portraits. A still life is a real life

12.10.07 | 08.12.07

 “Universalmente riconosciuto come una delle figure più importanti della nostra epoca nel mondo del teatro, dell’opera e delle arti visive, Robert Wilson è presente al Museo Madre di Napoli in occasione del Teatro Festival Italia. Per la mostra allestita nella Sala polivalente” ...