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Curated by: Jean-Loup Champion, Maria Tamajo Contarini e Carmine Romano.

The show

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) is one of the relevant examples of this axiom, he is marked both as an artist and as a man.

Gemito cannot be understood without Naples, outside of an ancient destiny, designated by the mists of time.

Gemito is placed in the wheel of the Annunciation on July 17, 1852, when he has only one day of life: his arrival in the world as an orphan will mark his entire existence and his artistic production.

Since the age of seventeen, modeling his card player - appreciated by King Vittorio Emanuele II and bought for the royal collections - Gemito is inspired by the world around him, by street urchins like him, modeling works in his image and likeness.

The revolution of realism that brings to Paris in 1877 with his Pescatorello, puts an end to that part of Western art that still refers to the ancient, adding picturesque Neapolitan fishermen still tied to an aesthetic of Grand Tour travelers.

Il Pescatorello di Gemito shows the street boy for what he really is: greedy, rapacious and in search of food.

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Works on display

Timetable and tickets

Address

Via Miano, 2
80131 Naples

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