L'URLO DEL SUD [“THE CRY OF THE SOUTH”]

Armando De Stefano

 

curated by Mario Franco

 

19.11.11 | 09.01.12

 

"L’urlo del Sud” [The Cry of the South"] is the title of the latest work by Armando De Stefano, but it also epitomizes the set of 18 paintings exhibited at the Madre. New works, produced expecially for this exhibition, created by a "historical" artist (in the sense that he depicts historical events, but also because he is part of the History of Art of Naples). An artist who, during more than sixty years of career, from post-war Neo-realism to the Baconian-expressionist figurative art of the sixties and seventies, has recounted stories and ideas of the Western universe. He has done so by producing images and colors which Domenico Rea has described “as if they were cries”, perhaps because many of his figures appear as masks without hope, portrayed within an earthly pre-inferno as preys to terror, for which loneliness and suffering are expressed with absolute conviction.
Invited to show his new works at the Museum of Contemporary Art of his native city, the artist has also decided to make a drawing on one of the walls of the exhibition rooms, testing his recognized skills as a well known drawer to leave a contemporary trace of his experience at Madre.