On December 5, 2025, the Museum and Royal Park of Capodimonte presents Bertozzi & Casoni. Metamorphosis, curated by Eike Schmidt and Diego Galizzi.   

The exhibition, open until April 26, 2026, unfolds in the rooms of the Royal Apartments on the first floor of the Museum, from the Pompeian Sitting Room to the elegant Ballroom. 

Original and visionary protagonists of contemporary sculpture, Bertozzi & Casoni (Giampaolo Bertozzi, 1957 – Stefano Dal Monte Casoni, 1961–2023) began their artistic research inspired by the famous exhibition Civilization of the Eighteenth Century, held in 1980 at the Capodimonte Museum.  

Over forty years after that first significant encounter with the major expressions of Neapolitan eighteenth-century art, they return to Capodimonte with the exhibition Metamorphosis, a selection of about twenty works, including loans from private collections and unpublished pieces created specifically for Capodimonte, notably Rocco (2025) – chosen as the guiding image of the exhibition and opening the exhibition path, placed in the evocative Pompeian Sitting Room – and the colorful and overflowing work Read more