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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 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 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

Oreste Pipolo

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1987 - 2008

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Oreste Pipolo’s third eye is not only the eye of a photographer who created the ‘wedding genre’ in Naples, which is for sure the most in-demand genre of his studio in via Carbonara. His third eye is sulphureous and hyperactive, it builds up a heavenly and exaggerated hell, baroque and kitsch, farcical and real, visionary but tangible - photographically speaking. He excited other photographers’ curiosity, such as Ferdinando Scianna's and Francesco Paolo Cito's, and gave inspiration to Matteo Garrone for a documentary film and to Marco Bellocchio for his movie “Il Regista di Matrimoni” (The Wedding Director). He moved from black and white to colours, from analogical to digital while capturing at least three generations of Neapolitan weddings. His photography puts together an anthropological repertoire; it investigates social environments and traditions and melts universal rituals mixing together theatrical, photographic, cinematographic and artistic practices. Those brides made of flesh and laces seem part of the sole Neapolitan universe, yet, in the meantime, they bring us back to the commedia dell’arte, to Rubens’ sensual pleasures, to Neapolitan b-movies, and to the composite photographs by Joel Peter Witkin.
 

Napoli 1949
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