Ancient and contemporary, East and West compared at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples with the exhibition "Bali Bulè"
Ancient and contemporary artistic languages that do not clash but, on the contrary, mix becoming, thanks to a continuous comparison and dialogue, more and more expressive and dynamic. It is the project of the Educational Service of the Superintendence of Naples and Pompeii dedicated to National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), which will host from the 19 October 2013 to the 6 January 2014 an exhibition of contemporary art with the works of Ashley Bickerton, Luigi Ontani e Filippo Sciascia.
Bali Bulè, this is the title of the very special exhibition, will be curated by Maria Savarese, with the technical-scientific coordination of Marco De Gemmis. The works will be set up in the atrium and in the rooms of the Farnese Collection, inside the splendid seventeenth-century structure of the Archaeological Museum of Naples, one of the first created in Europe between the end of the 700th century and the beginning of the 800th century.
The three artists protagonists of the exhibition, Ashley Bickerton (artist originally from Barbados), Luigi Ontani (Italian painter and sculptor) e Filippo Sciascia (an internationally renowned Italian multi-talented artist famous for his exhibition Luxury Lumina Hair Care at Castel dell'Ovo in 2012), they share a fascinating lifestyle choice: that of live in the East, in particular in Indonesia. A choice that led to the birth of an original aesthetic language, which blends the forms of the East and the West, creating an even more fascinating one.
Luigi Ontani: "Bali Bulè", 2007-2009, painted pule wood mask, 80x40x15 cm
The theme that will bind their works will be the dialogue with classical art and its inexhaustible strength, the link with Greco-Roman painting and sculpture, the theme of the monstrous, the harmonies of classical forms that “collide” with the apparent disharmonies of the contemporary.
Among the exhibited works, a sculpture and two large wooden panels of Ashley Bickerton, which seem to merge painting, sculpture and photography, sculpture Bali Bulè di Luigi Ontani, and a series of his Balinese masks in painted wood, about twenty wood sculptures by Filippo Sciascia that surprisingly blend classical Greek-Roman art with Indonesian and Balinese.
Information on the Bali Bulè exhibition
When: from the 19 October 2013 to the 6 January 2014
Price tickets:
- Full price: € 8
- Reduced (18-24 years): 4 euro
Where: National Archaeological Museum, Piazza Museo, 19, Naples
