The MADRE in Naples presents a major retrospective exhibition devoted to Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901-Milan 1986) curated by Germano Celant and organized in collaboration with Marta Melotti and the Archivio Fausto Melotti . Like his contemporaries Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois and Lucio Fontana, Melotti Long has long been recognized, both nationally and internationally, as a key figure in modern and contemporary sculpture. In the early thirties he was distinguished as ...

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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. In fact, after more than forty years later the ...

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Following the exhibition dedicated to Armando De Stefano, MADRE Museum continues its reflection on the artistic history of the City of Naples by presenting an exhibition on Mario ...

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The exploration of new models of social encounters and communication, a concern for social issues, the interaction with different kinds of public and the collaboration on ...

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Achille Bonito Oliva, the critic who coined the term Transavanguardia ...

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"L’urlo del Sud” [The Cry of the South"] is the ...

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