Palazzo Calabritto show reanimates antiquity through contemporary art

The group exhibition 'Dal frammento alla visione. Il passato come possibilità' (From Fragment to Vision: The Past as Possibility) opened at Jus Museum in Palazzo Calabritto, Naples, featuring works by Annalaura di Luggo, Giorgio Tentolini, and Nicolò Tomaini. Curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, the show is part of the 'Visioni contemporanee' program of the Municipality of Naples, organized by 3xTe in collaboration with Galleria Melesi of Lecco and Colossi Arte Contemporanea of Brescia. The exhibition reframes the fragment not as a melancholic remnant but as a stem cell for new aesthetic bodies. Di Luggo's works, such as 'Intro-spectio (Gemini)' and 'Riflesso d'ali,' insert macroscopic photographs of human eyes into ancient sculptures, using dibond and plexiglas to create layered transparencies that animate marble busts. Tentolini's pieces, including 'Aglaia' and 'Antinoo capitolino,' are built from meticulous overlays of metal mesh, producing diaphanous presences that evoke marble through industrial lightness. Tomaini intervenes on 18th-century paintings with enamels and inks that mimic digital error aesthetics; in 'Silicio: ritratto di donna,' the oil portrait is disrupted by computer-circuit inserts, critiquing the forced archiving of beauty in databases. Di Luggo also created the multiscreen video 'Visioni dalla storia,' projected in the Pluribus immersive cube at Jus Museum, linking facial details and material textures into a fluid mnemonic organism.