Cutting Clouds: A Group Show at Madre Napoli Explores Clouds as Conceptual Territory
The exhibition 'Cutting Clouds | Tagliando le nuvole' is currently on display at the Madre museum in Naples, curated by Marta Ferrara and Marta Wróblewska. This showcase draws inspiration from the 1964 piece 'Cloud Scissors' by George Brecht and Robert Filliou, featuring a range of artworks throughout the museum. Noteworthy pieces include Edoardo Aruta's 'Tra cielo e terra' (2013-2024), Domenico Antonio Mancini's 'Landscapes' (2019), Carmela De Falco's video (2022), and Alberto Tadiello's sound installation ('Corax', 2023). Additional contributions come from artists such as Marisa Albanese, Gianni Caravaggio, Simone Berti, Eva Marisaldi, Salvatore Emblema, Arrigo Lora Totino, Yoko Ono, Dieter Roth, and Francesco Arena. The exhibition delves into themes of imagination, mutability, and indeterminacy through experimentation and play.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'Cutting Clouds | Tagliando le nuvole' at Madre, Naples
- Curated by Marta Ferrara and Marta Wróblewska
- Title references George Brecht and Robert Filliou's 'Cloud Scissors' (1964)
- Works displayed in non-traditional spaces: ticket hall, elevator anteroom, stairwells
- Includes 20+ artists: Aruta, Mancini, De Falco, Tadiello, Albanese, Caravaggio, Berti, Marisaldi, Emblema, Lora Totino, Ono, Brecht, Roth, Arena, Vestrucci, Fenara, Nasini, Perino&Vele, Pietroiusti
- Interactive work by Pietroiusti requires viewer to burn the sheet to complete it
- Sound installation by Tadiello in elevator waiting area
- Nasini's stairwell intervention uses colored acrylic wool threads
Entities
Artists
- George Brecht
- Robert Filliou
- Edoardo Aruta
- Domenico Antonio Mancini
- Carmela De Falco
- Alberto Tadiello
- Marisa Albanese
- Gianni Caravaggio
- Simone Berti
- Eva Marisaldi
- Salvatore Emblema
- Arrigo Lora Totino
- Yoko Ono
- Dieter Roth
- Francesco Arena
- Serena Vestrucci
- Irene Fenara
- Matteo Nasini
- Perino&Vele
- Cesare Pietroiusti
- Marta Ferrara
- Marta Wróblewska
- Antonello Tolve
- Ennio Flaiano
- Kahlil Gibran
Institutions
- Madre (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina)
- Fluxus
- Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico
- Accademia Albertina di Torino
- Università di Salerno
- Artribune
Locations
- Naples
- Italy
- Porta Capuana
- New York
- Cambogia
- Oman
- Roma
- Melfi
- Salerno
- Torino