Michele Guido – Domenico Antonio Mancini – Luca Monterastelli

Lia Rumma Gallery Via Vannella Gaetani 12 – 80121 Naples

Gallery times: Tuesday-Saturday 11.00-14.00 / 15.00-19.00

Domenico Antonio Mancini (Naples, 1980), Michele Guido (Aradeo, Lecce 1976), Luca

Monterastelli (Forlimpopoli, 1983), are called to investigate the possibility of activating reciprocal resonances between their works and the environments of the Lia Rumma gallery in Naples.

The three artists intend to resonate those rooms saturated with memories, settled over time, triggering a sudden acceleration of meaning for those signs kept there. The process by which more psychic phenomena are associated with each other according to criteria of similarity and not of contiguity, as happens in physical resonance, in fact, will guide them in building a real architecture of relationships, a machine able to put into communication different historical and geographical areas, a system capable of making explicit spatial and physical connections, between inside and outside, between public uses and private uses, between nature and artifice. All this means designing connections between social, aesthetic and behavioral organizations.

An interstitial project of mediations and links between morphologically different contexts, capable of establishing strong relationships in vertical and horizontal sections with the layers of the examined cultural context.

For these reasons it is not possible to describe the exhibition as visitors can ponder it starting from the day it is open to the public, if not telling it as a fantastic phenomenon, open to unspeakable evolutions if visual art is unspeakable to the extent that it becomes conscious of debt and the consequent need to confront the formal world of predetermined expressive values, these come from the past or the present.

Based on this awareness, the artists did not give a title to the exhibition.

The tension expressed in giving an autonomous imprint to one’s own language, however, pushes these artists to give greater impetus to the mnemic activity, in order to deal, in all sincerity, with the predetermined forms of visual culture.

The memory of events is condensed in the images and the object-signs produced by the artists, these become the place where the memory of events, the social memory that in certain circumstances can be reactivated and discharged more directly precipitates and is condensed.

Marco Tagliaferro

The Neapolitan Domenico Antonio Mancini interpreted the Lia Rumma gallery, doing a work by heart, that is working on the idea of ​​space changed and modified over time, bringing the offices back to the first floor, where today there is the gallery. The artist has thus relocated to a whole hall, rebuilding it in white cardboard designed and cut to size, the shelving of shelves by Alvar Alto, with all its folders from the gallery archive. Containers which, like treasure chests, preserve photos and documents of all the exhibitions, together with the biographies of the many artists who have come from Naples and in that place.

from: Lia Rumma “shows” the work is the gallery space
by Renata Caragliano

Domenico Antonio Mancini

installation view – photocredit Giusva Cennamo – photo studio Primo Piano
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, May 15 – July 20, 2013

Michele Guido has instead built a “Temple of Venus” that fits perfectly into the vaulted room where once there was the bedroom of Lia Rumma. It is a poetic work between nature and architecture that characterizes the style of this artist. The stratigraphic photo of the section of the euphorbia succulent plant generates a geometric structure from which the various levels for the base of the temple are born. In each vertex there are columns created by the plaster cast of the section of a stem of the lotus flower, while on the glass plate at the top of the temple, the flower beds of the garden are always carved from the initial photo.

from: Lia Rumma “shows” the work is the gallery space
by Renata Caragliano

Michele Guido

installation view – photocredit Giusva Cennamo – photo studio Primo Piano
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, May 15 – July 20, 2013

Not a single work but a group of sculptural works characterize the participation of Luca Monterastelli in this project. They dialogue with the architecture of the place because they reflect on the statute of making sculpture today, exhibiting materials – wood, iron, cement, reinforced alabaster plaster – that as symbols of themselves give life to forms that the artist defines as signs in space that hosts them.

from: Lia Rumma “shows” the work is the gallery space
by Renata Caragliano

Luca Monterastelli

installation view – photocredit Giusva Cennamo – photo studio Primo Piano
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, May 15 – July 20, 2013