10 exhibitions not to be missed in the museums of Naples and surroundings in July and August 2016: Picasso, Cracking Art, Cartier-Bresson and many others!
Culture and art in Naples will not go on vacation and, if you want to spend your free time relaxing and, at the same time, discovering the heritage and treasures of our city, we point out 10 exhibitions not to be missed!
You just have to choose between the artifacts of Pompeii, works by Mimmo Jodice, a famous painting by Picasso, the colorful installation of Cracking Art, photographs of Henri Cartier - Bresson and many other masterpieces of classical, modern and contemporary art exhibited in museums and places of culture in the city but also in the province and its territory, to immerse you every day in new and fascinating experiences.
We give you 10 more reasons to come or stay in Naples during the summer, 10 excellent opportunities to discover, or to know even better our city and its surroundings!
National archeologic museum
Myth and Nature from Greece to Pompeii
An exhibition already appreciated at the Palazzo Reale in Milan during the Expo that tells the relationship with the natural reality of the Greek, Magnogreci and Roman artists through 180 masterpieces from Italian and international museums such as the Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna and the Louvre in Paris. On display vases, sculptures, votive terracottas, frescoes, statues and luxury objects dating back to the 8th century. BC to II century A.D
When: up to 30 September 2016
Where: National Archaeological Museum, Piazza 19 Museum, Naples
Hours: from 9.00 to 19.30 (last entry to 19.00); Tuesday closed
Ticket price: full 13 €; reduced 9 €
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Alexey Morosov - Pontifex Maximus
30 plastic works of the Russian artist Alexey Morosov, designed specifically for the spaces of the National Archaeological Museum, are set up in the monumental atrium of the museum. The installation, promoted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, aims to create a bridge between different and distant cultures and eras: East and West, classical art and contemporary art, past and present, tradition and technology, in a work of updating contemporary of classical iconography. As the title of the exhibition suggests, "Pontifex Maximus" (pontiff, from the Latin da pons facere, bridge builder).
When: up to 1 September 2016
Where: National Archaeological Museum, Piazza 19 Museum, Naples
Hours: from 9.00 to 19.30 (last entry to 19.00); Tuesday closed
Ticket price: full 13 €; reduced 9 €
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Mother Museum
Mimmo Jodice - Waiting
"WAIT 1960-2016", on display at the Madre Museum in Naples (open for free in August), is the largest retrospective exhibition dedicated to the master of contemporary photography, Mimmo Jodice. A photographic journey that will immerse the visitor in the main photographic cycles of the artist, from the initial experiments on the photographic language of the years' 60 up to the most unseen series. Between shots that capture the expressions of man as he observes the reality that surrounds him, the places, like the great metropolises of the Mediterranean, and the metaphysical aspects of everyday life.
When: up to 24 October 2016
Where: Mother Museum, via Settembrini 79, Naples
Hours: Mon - Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat: 10.00 - 19.30; Sunday: 10.00 - 20.00; Closed on Tuesday
Ticket price: full: € 7; reduced: € 3,50
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Museum of Capodimonte
Re-opening of the section of contemporary art
In the splendid Capodimonte Museum, it has just re-opened after a long period of work, the section of contemporary art, with the opportunity to admire more than 90 works including sculptures, photographs and installations by famous artists such as Mimmo Jodice, Andy Warhol, Pistoletto, Mario Merz and William Kentridge. Until September it will be possible to visit this section, but also the rest of the museum, al special price of 1 euro on Thursday evening starting from 19: 30.
When: permanent collection
Where: Capodimonte Museum, via Miano 2, Naples
Hours: Monday to Sunday, from 8: 30 to 19: 30; Wednesday closed; Thursday also from 19: 30 to 22: 30 (until September)
Price: full 8 euro; reduced 4 euro; Euro 1 on Thursday from 19: 30 (until September)
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Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano
The Harlequin with the Picasso Mirror
Until September 11 you can admire one of Picasso's most appreciated masterpieces, which belongs to the series of "seated Harlequins" made in 1923. The painting recalls the blue and pink periods in which the artist represented the circus artists and the masks of Arlecchino and Pierrot.
When: up to 11 September 2016
Where: Italian galleries of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, via Toledo 185, Naples
Hours: Monday closed; from Tuesday to Friday from 10alle 18 (last entry 17: 30); Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 20 (last entry to 19: 30)
Ticket price: full 5 €; reduced 3 €
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PAN - Palace of the Arts of Naples
Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Mind's Eye
An unmissable exhibition dedicated to one of the most famous photographers of all time. The most significant moments in the history of our century told through 54 shots masterly become icons: surrealism, the Cold War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War. Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered the pioneer of photo-journalism, dubbed "the eye of the century".
When: up to 28 July 2016
Where: PAN, Palazzo delle Arti in Naples, via dei Mille 60, Naples
Hours: Monday and Wednesday to Saturday from 9.30 to 19.30; Sunday from 9.30 to 14.30; Tuesday closed
Ticket price: full: € 5; reduced 4 €
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Rock!
Back to the PAN the now famous international exhibition on music and its languages that let you explore the pop-rock music scene of the last fifty years.
This sixth edition is entitled "ICONIC2016" and will include 28 original works from artists and fans from around the world and 15 portraits of Madonna, to which part of the exhibition is dedicated.
When: up to 3 September 2016
Where: PAN, Palazzo delle Arti in Naples, via dei Mille 60, Naples
Hours: Monday and Wednesday to Saturday from 9.30 to 19.30; Sunday from 9.30 to 14.30; Tuesday closed
Ticket price: free admission
Palace of Caserta
Cracking Art
The installations realized by the artistic movement Cracking Art have "invaded" the Royal Palace of Caserta with 50 structures that reproduce giant colored animals: wolves, frogs, swallows, snails, meerkats and snails. The extravagant sculptures in colored and regenerated plastic can be found both at the entrance of the Palace and along the Cannocchiale, the gallery that connects to the main avenue of the Park.
When: up to 30 August 2016
Where: Royal Palace of Caserta, interior and exterior - Palazzo Reale, Viale Douhet, 2 / a
Hours: Monday to Sunday from 8.30 to 19; Tuesday closed
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Terrae Motus
At the Royal Palace of Caserta, the collection is revived Terrae MotusThe collection of Lucio Amelio which comprises 72 masterpieces of contemporary artists including works by Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter made after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake and donate, after the death of Amelio, to the Palace. The collection, which can finally be admired complete in all its splendor, will be permanent.
When: permanent collection
Where: Royal Palace of Caserta
Hours: Monday to Sunday from 8.30 to 19; Tuesday closed
Price: full € 9; reduced € 4,50
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Casamadre Gallery
Anish Kapoor
In the white spaces of the former gallery of Lucio Amelio and now directed by Eduard Cicelyn and dedicated to contemporary art, they are exhibited 10 works by the British sculptor and architect Anish Kapoor. 4 drawings and 6 sculptures suspended between immaterial and immaterial, hard and soft, solid and fluid, light and darkness, weight and lightness.
"The sculptures of Anish Kapoor seem to be material constructions with transcendental ends. But they are not. They come perhaps from remote stories and hidden meanings. But then they do not tell anything. More often they are manifested as presences that flow from nothing almost by natural impulse, in simple, prelinguistic forms, in some cases only sketchy and not yet mentioned. Sometimes they resemble plants, flowers, fruits, as if they were self-generating, flowing in the eye with a cyclic rhythm and a simple and orderly measure ".
When: up to 15 October 2016
Where: Casamadre Gallery, Piazza dei Martiri 58, Naples
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 10.30 to 13.30; from 16.30 to 20, Sunday closed
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