CHE DICI TOTÒ?
26 April / 16 May 2017
The exhibition took place in spring in the splendid setting of Castel dell’Ovo in Naples. Dedicated to Totò, a comedic genius but also an Italian icon, in the post-war economic boom period, when lots of people enjoyed watching his films and listening to his unsettling and surreal jokes. A hundred artists, including students from the Academy of Fine Arts, pay homage to the "prince" of comedy between painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design, installations and digital art. The event was organized in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples.
"Totò, with his art that is always fresh and current, has inspired the most incredible and singular works, with mysterious and mute faces because more can not be said or sound fantasies of smirk and superstitions full of meaning and the pleasure of rediscovering notes and never lost symphonies... the artists wanted to express their admiration for Totò and take up the challenge proposed a dialogue with the actor, poet, musician, comedian, drama, mask, pulcinella and puppet, who has become an undisputed icon of the philosophy of life of the Neapolitans."
Artists / Alaa Eddin Ahmad, Luca Alinari, Annemarie Ambrosoli, Nicola Andreace, Enzo Angiuoni, Luciano Astolfi, Paolo Berti, Bora, Borzani, Rossana Bucci, Romano Buratti, Letizia Caiazzo, Giancarlo Caneva, Beatriz Cardenas, Roberto Cardone, Nello Caruso, Marilyn Cerri, Giovanni Cherubini, Fulvia Chiurazzi, Lorenzo Cleffi, Ignazio Colagrossi, Umberto Colapinto Cubert, Lamberto Correggiari, Mariella Costa, Glauco Costantini, Sonia Paolone, Carlo Cottone, Antonio Crivellari, Antonio D’Acunto, Marco Del Vecchio, Piero De Martin, Clara Di Curzio, Roberto Di Giampaolo, Alessandra Di Guida, Michele Di Martino, Filomena Di Muro, Mariateresa Di Nardo, Antonio Di Rosa, Peppe Esposito, Massimiliano Ferragina, Rosalia Ferreri, Claudio Mario Feruglio, Enzo Forese, Ascanio Francese, Ado Furlanetto, Stelvio Gambardella, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Mauro Gentile, Francesco Giraldi, Nicola Guarino, Antonio Iannece, Tommaso Ilardi, Giuseppe Liberati, Dorotea Li Causi, Franco Lista, Oronzo Liuzzi, Nadia Lolletti, Anna Magistro, Fidalma Malferà, Antonio Manganiello, Alfonso Mangone, Paolo Marazzi, Guido Mariani, Luciana Mascia, Miriam Melle, Raffaele Mellino, Zdravko Milic, Lucio Monaco, Giampaolo Muliari, Bruno Paglialonga, Daniela Pagliaro, Pasquale Pagnottella, Concetta Palmintesta, Luigi Palomba, Vincenzo Panella, Gianni Pascoli, Antonio Picardi, Giuseppina Pioli, Andrea Pisano, Edoardo Pisano, Stefano Pizzi, Enio Pra, Antonio Pugliese, Teresa Riganello, Myriam Risola, Luigi Romano, Gianni Rossi, Elena Saponaro, Antonella Sirignano, Marcello Specchio, Violetta Mastrodonato, Pippo Spina, Rosa Spina, Alessandra Spizzo, Remo Stasi, Gerardo Strazzullo, Leo Strozzieri, Michele Toniatti, Marinella Tortora, Salvatore Tropea, Generoso Vella, Luciana Zabarella, Gianfranco Zazzeroni, Antonio Zucchiatti