NAPEX 92053 LIMITED

Napex 92053 Napoli Explosion

Qui la costellazione di luci disegna un enorme balena azzurra avvolta in un vortice di bolle d’aria come nell’immersione dopo un alto salto. Una balena maestosa che supera in stazza i confini stessi della composizione. Impossibile non fare riferimento al capolavoro della letteratura americana Moby Dick quando Melville scrive “Nuotò nei mari prima che i continenti rompessero le acque. Nel diluvio di Noè disprezzò l’Arca di Noè; e se mai il mondo dovesse essere inondato di nuovo, come i Paesi Bassi, per uccidere i suoi topi, allora l’eterna balena sopravvivrà ancora e, impennandosi sulla cresta più alta del diluvio equatoriale, lancerà la sua schiumosa sfida al cielo.” Napoli Explosion Napex di Mario Amura

Sylvain Bellenger

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.

Mario Amura

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