Antonio Biasiucci's Codex and Moltitudini at MANN and Fondazione Banco di Napoli

Antonio Biasiucci (Dragoni, 1961; lives in Naples) presents two exhibitions in Naples: 'Codex' at the MANN (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) and 'Moltitudini' at the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, both curated by Gianluca Riccio and running until July 18, 2016. 'Codex' features 40 photographs of selected ledgers from the Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli, the world's largest bank archive housed in 330 rooms. Biasiucci isolates individual books, photographing them in rigorous black-and-white with a rich gray scale, printed at high quality. The installation fills the Sala del soffitto stellato at MANN. 'Moltitudini' is a permanent installation on the third floor of the Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli, where Biasiucci projects images from his personal archive onto stacks of documents, creating an interplay between his subjects (faces, breads, skulls) and the archive's manuscripts. The artist is known for works like 'Pani' (2009-2011) and 'Molti' (2009).