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Joseph Beuys, Cuma 1985 Robert Rauschenberg in Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1987 Francesco Clemente at Madre Museum 2006 McDermott & McGough and David Bowes at Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1986 Marina Abramovich, Galleria Morra 1975 Alberto Burri's Grande Cretto Vernissage, Museo di Capodimonte 1978 Dan Flavin Installation, Galleria Trisorio 1974 Hermann Nitsch, aktion n.45, Galleria Morra 1974 Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol and Lucio Amelio, press conference 1980 Joseph Beuys, press conference 1980 Lucio Amelio and Andy Warhol, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Leopoldo Mastelloni, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Barry White/Piazza del Plebiscito - Souvenirs d'Italia series 2006 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 1978 - 1985 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Landscape #1 2007 - 2009 Landscape #2 2007 - 2009 Landscape #4 2007 - 2009 Landscape #3 2007 - 2009 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 2003 - 2009 16641664166... 2007 Untitled 2003 - 2009 Untitled 1985 - 2010 Untitled 2010 Roofs 1985 - 2010 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 1969 Untitled 1987 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 2008 "Indietro nel tempo" 1989 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 1998 Set del film “Gorbaciòf” di Stefano Incerti, nella foto Toni Servillo 2009 Set del film “Armandino e il Madre” di Valeria Golino, nella foto Denis Nikolie. 2010 Set del film “Fuoco su di me” di Lamberto Lambertini 2004 Set del film “Il divo” di Paolo Sorrentino 2007 Acquapark 2007 Magic World 2010 Snoopy's rest 2 2007 Villaricca 2007 Franco, actor 2003 Franco, surgeon 2003 Pasquale, meccanico 2003 Vincenzo, pescivendolo 2003 Untitled (Naples, Via Partenope) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Via Nazario Sauro) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Marechiaro) 2010 Untitled (Trittico Via Caracciolo) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°1 (LA BELLA ‘MBRIANA) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°5 (IL MARINAIO AMERICANO) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°7 (LA BELLA CHIARA) 2010 Vedrai, andrà tutto bene - Donn'Anna 2008

Mario Spada

Untitled

2001

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At the age of fifteen he began working as a wedding photographer assistant. He got interested in reportage and approached the dark room working as a printer for the historical archive Parisio. Long before Gomorrah, he led Roberto Saviano through a sort of journey in the waste land, he took him to Scampia, together they attended camorrists’ weddings and his photos went along with the first author’s articles written for the “Manifesto”. Spada chose not the follow the daily spot news, but to disassemble and organize stories through photographs. His black and white straight forward pictures show a hurting Naples, without any distance or celebration with wild and hyperrealistic details; his editing is tight, original and crude. Spada focuses on reality and the plain truth, his reportages provoke international response, he tells the story of fighting dogs or the story of Francesco, a man who is under house arrest in the area of “Quartieri spagnoli”. His photography means deepening, participation and knowledge without any kind of control. Mastiffs is the football supporters’ group created in August 1991 that dominates the Neapolitan scene. When you are a part of it, you choose a lifestyle and forget your identity: you only belong to it. A match is another life: a lawyer and a felon, a student and a father are all prisoners and gladiators who travel through the arena escorted by riot policemen while singing the war song “kill us”.

Napoli 1971
Mario Spada loves his city, with all its incredible people and complex situations. And he loves taking pictures of it. He does it with a personal way to get through those ...
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