The exhibition features 37 large-scale works by photographer Mario Amura, who, in a project developed over more than 13 years, has immortalized in true photographic paintings the fireworks celebration that the Neapolitan people stage around Mount Vesuvius on New Year's Eve.
"Naples exorcises the fear that the volcano might erupt by exploding with light and colors throughout the Gulf of Naples," says Mario Amura. "Every year, on December 31st, I climb with a crew made up of some of my dearest friends to Mount Faito, the mountain that looms over the Gulf of Naples, facing Vesuvius. From there, we capture this kind of exorcism against the inhuman forces of the volcano, of fate. The result, despite being, in fact, a work of photographic reportage, is extraordinarily pictorial: the fireworks become nebulae, animals, stellar landscapes."

"Napoli Explosion" is an exhibition in which pyrotechnic art, photography, painting, and scenography converge into a single event. It's the Christmas gift that the Capodimonte Museum gives to Naples, declares Sylvain Bellenger, the Director General of the Capodimonte Museum and Royal Bosco di Capodimonte.