27 NOVEMBER, Sala Grande of Gallerie d’Italia – Naples Intesa Sanpaolo museum from 4.45 to 6.00 p.m.

Presentation of the studies and round table discussion The Corpo di Napoli: a public dialogue between ephemeral and permanent, with Simona Da Pozzo (Visual Artist), Yasmine Rihahi (Research Fellow at the University for Foreigners of Siena) and Maria Gaia Redavid (Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome).

The talk is part of Storie in Movimento: Dialoghi e Percorsi sulle Vite del Patrimonio Culturale Diffuso, from 25 November to 1 December 2024. From an idea by Francesca Amirante | Curated by Nicola Ciancio (for Ex-Voto) | Scientific direction by Francesca Amirante | Promoted and financed by the City of Naples | Coordination and production Ex-Voto.

Following this meeting, will take place in addition:

The presentation Di fronte all’Antico, andata e ritorno: porcellane napoletane del Settecento e diffusione europea dei motivi pompeiani with Paola D’Alconzo (Associate Professor of Museology, Art Criticism and Restoration, University of Naples Federico II, Department of Humanistic Studies).

The presentation Giro Giro Tondo by artist Diego Cibelli.

The dialogue La ceramica patrimonio immateriale tra storia, innovazione e formazione with Paola D’alconzo, Diego Cibelli and Valter Luca De Bartolomeis (Headmaster Polo delle Arti Caselli Palizzi of Naples).

Through an open dialogue, the intervention aims to analyse some possible interactions between the monuments, the city and its inhabitants, using a multidisciplinary approach, starting from the project Atlas of Bodies (2019-in-progress) that the artist Simona Da Pozzo is conducting on the Corpo di Napoli monument.

The starting point is the reconstruction of the artistic, social and anthropological history of the statue from the Alexandrian age, the interpretations attributed to it over time and its relationship with the urbe, which has changed over the centuries. A ‘palimpsest of compositional experiences’, as has been said (Middione, 1993), but also human and social.

From the investigation of the past, one arrives at the work in progress Atlas dei Corpi: a context-specific workshop open to the public and realised in several moments in which a new ‘alliance’ with the statue of the Nile is sought. The artist comes into contact with the possible interpretations of the monument, both the historical and already consolidated ones and the most current beliefs, for a stratified and polycentric narration, which denies any hierarchy and renews the relationship with the public space through participatory practices.

What is the possible relationship between cultural heritage and everyday life? Is it possible to rethink urban space through the artistic dimension?

How to preserve the memory of this kind of inarchivable practice in a systematic way?

The conversation between the artist and the art historians aims to seek, also through an exchange with the public, possible answers to still open questions, in the encounter between theory and artistic practice, between history and production, material and immaterial.

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