Artists

Artists seen by Nando Calabrese and Tony Stefanucci

Caffè dell’Epoca in Piazza Bellini February 14, 2008

Thursday, February 14, 2008, at 5:00 pm, in the Red Room of the Guida Bookstore at Portalba, the video by Tony Stefanucci “In Search of Lost Art” will be screened. The presentation and debate will be coordinated by Vitaliano Corbi. Nicola Oddati, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Naples, will participate.

The video, made in 1994, is being shown again as a testimony of a past, albeit more recent, and almost as a “historical” document of a situation that in some respects now appears changed. Some of our greatest artists – from Augusto Perez to Luca, from Domenico Spinosa to Luciano Caruso and Gianni De Tora – have unfortunately since passed away. In Naples, there is now a Museum of Contemporary Art and a Palace of the Arts. The number of private galleries has grown significantly, while some periodic events in public spaces have aroused wide and lively interest.

Yet when considering the contradiction between the vitality of an artistic culture that has been profoundly renewed over the second half of the twentieth century and the shadow in which it continues to be confined by public institutions and private operators too involved in the interests of the “official art system,” one must admit that Tony Stefanucci’s video, which documented precisely that contradiction, still possesses an exceptional charge of relevance.

At 8:00 pm, at the end of the screening and debate, the photo exhibition “Artists” as seen by Nando Calabrese and Tony Stefanucci will be inaugurated at the Caffè dell’Epoca, in Piazza Bellini.

EXHIBITION PHOTOS

Guida Bookstore

via Port’Alba, 20 – Piazza Dante

Naples