Mario Amura. Napoli Explosion. Italian and English Vers. Vol. 1

Mario Amura. Napoli Explosion. Italian and English Vers. Vol. 1 Napoli Explosion

Limited signed edition of 400 Art book, featuring 116 photographic paintings created over more than 13 years by Mario Amura. The artworks capture the extraordinary choreography of fireworks that Neapolitans detonate all around the Vesuvius volcano, on New Year's Eve. Art historian S. Settis says ”Napoli Explosion is an autobiographical work, a hymn of Naples to itself” Published during the exhibition at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, curated by Director Sylvain Bellenger. Texts by S. Bellenger, B. Di Marino, S. Iovino, and S. Murri

Napoli Explosion

The window of my bedroom overlooked Mount Vesuvius, and every morning, with reverence, I whispered a good morning to it as one would address a slumbering person, afraid of awakening them. The volcano is a living presence for anyone living at its slopes. For over 12 years, on New Year's Eve, my team and I ascend Mount Faito, a mountain overlooking the Bay of Naples, to capture the extraordinary choreography of lights and colors produced by fireworks all around Vesuvius. Through this superstitious and propitiatory ritual, the people of Naples welcome the new year. The image of the black and silent silhouette of the volcano submerged by the cacophony of fireworks' colors seemed to me a representation that needed to be explored seriously and viewed from different perspectives. Over the years, the project has evolved into an experimentation of new forms of writing with light, using a unique color palette provided by the hundreds of thousands of fireworks exploding simultaneously. Over time, Napoli Explosion has become a work in search of the feeling of light.

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