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Mario Amura. Napoli Explosion. Italian and English Vers. Vol. 2 Napoli Explosion
Napoli Explosion è un Art book in limited signed edition di 500 copie che raccoglie 116 dipinti fotografici, realizzati in oltre 13 anni da Mario Amura. Le opere immortalano la straordinaria coreografia di fuochi d’artificio che i napoletani fanno esplodere attorno al Vesuvio nella notte di Capodanno. Lo storico dell’Arte Salvatore Settis definisce Napoli Explosion “un’opera autobiografica, un inno di Napoli a se stessa”. Pubblicato in contemporanea con la mostra presso il Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte a cura del Direttore Sylvain Bellenger contiene testi critici di S. Bellenger, B. Di Marino, S. Iovino e 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.
