Le Galleries of Italy - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, museum headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Naples, present dal September 25, 2020 to January 24, 2021 the exhibition Liberty Naples. "In the air and spring", Edited by Luisa Martorelli e Fernando Mazzocca and with the staging by Lucia Anna Iovieno.
With more than seventy works, among paintings, sculptures, jewels and various manufactures, the exhibition highlights the diffusion of the modernist style ei original characters of art in Naples in the period from 1889 to 1915.
Different expressions, some unusual, some extraordinary, of what the architect and art critic Alfredo Melani defined: "a new art, new style, modern style, Liberty style, Floral style, in how many ways this aesthetic movement is indicated !”, a real breath of youth, just “n' aria 'e primmavera” like the one that blows in the very popular verses of March (1898) by Salvatore Di Giacomo.
Giovanni Bazoli, Chairman Emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo, states: «The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary elegance of Art Nouveau in Naples, reminding us of the uniqueness of the national heritage, an essential resource of our country. There can be no reconstruction, moral, social and economic recovery without the beauty that art and culture can give. This initiative confirms the strong link between the Bank and Naples: a link that the Gallerie d'Italia in thirteen years of intense activity have been able to strengthen, contributing to enriching the cultural offer in the city."
The exhibition
The exhibition opens with a room dedicated to paintings from his stay in Naples Happy Casorati, which prelude, in the following rooms, the works of the protagonists of that avant-garde movement, called Secession of the 23, born starting from 1909 on initiative by Edgardo Curcio, Francesco Galante, Edoardo Pansini, Raffaele Uccella and Eugenio Viti, together with the sculptors Costantino Barbella, Filippo Cifariello and Saverio Gatto.
A significant space is reserved for applied arts which, during the Liberty season, integrate with the major arts in a perspective of modern production in the new era of consumption. It will be exhibited The Fountain of the Herons (1887), exemplary lecture by Philip Palzzi, a forerunner in this artistic field who knew how to infuse the following generations with the foundations for a decisive revival in the field of manufacturing.
