Neapolitan artist Marisa Albanese dies at 74

Marisa Albanese, a Neapolitan artist known for exploring dynamism, energy, and sociopolitical themes through sculpture, video, and installation, died at 74 after a long illness. Born in Naples in 1947, she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli and Università Federico II, and lived between Naples and Milan. Her work often addressed cyclical repetition, seriality, the double, and movement, with early pieces like 'Le resistenze' (2002) using high-tension wires to create a prism of pure energy. She also focused on housing, displacement, and nomadism from intimate and collective perspectives. The Museo Madre di Napoli mourned her passing, highlighting her permanent installation 'Via Settembrini' (2012-14), which features a video and two maquettes of the San Lorenzo district. Curator Eugenio Viola described the work as a communicative exercise that gives voice to the ineffable. Albanese exhibited at Studio Trisorio and venues in Naples, Palermo, Bologna, Rome, Capri, Ischia, Paris, Jakarta, Weimar, and Toronto. In 2010, the Museo di Capodimonte held a retrospective curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Her work will be included in the collective exhibition PANORAMA | Procida in September 2021.