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closed Marisa Albanese.

The show

The Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Museo Madre presents Marisa Albanese. La Combattente, a tribute to Marisa Albanese (1947-2021) three months after her death, to remember the indelible mark she left in the art of our time and in the lives of those who will intertwine her gaze. The installation plays on the double level of sense of personality and the vital trace left by the artist and on the title of the works exhibited in the atrium of the museum from 1 December 2021 to 14 February 2022.

The three fighters who welcome visitors in the atrium of the museum are part of a long project on the energy of women and their role in the cultural and political history of our time, developed over the years by Marisa Albanese - themes that have always been at the center of his interest and work - which were catalyzed in the late nineties in the Korai series. Women represented in a recollected, intimate position, wearing a helmet that forms the perimeter of a meditation area of which the hands are also reflected, fixed in postures that recall Zen gestures.

In the year 2000 these female figures undergo a metamorphosis, open to the world and are transformed into a work dedicated to the memory of the women of Naples who fell fighting against Nazi-fascism during the "Four Days of Naples" in 1943 and destined for the homonymous station of the Naples Metro, among the first of the nascent "Metro of Art", which has been home to them permanently ever since.

The body of a slender and strong young woman, sitting like a warrior in the immediacy of the fight, concentrated in herself, master of her feminine intuition, wears a helmet, a metaphor for a relationship with the world dynamically stretched between custody, protection of his own thought and a look that is guided by this and in this changes in the struggle for the affirmation of his own authenticity. For the artist, the shape and meaning of the helmet also evoked the scarves of the mothers of Plaza de Maio which, knotted on the head, over time became a symbol of struggle and resistance.

The whiteness of the Fighters immediately refers to the white statuary, but beware: what we see today, for example in the Greek statuary, is a white washed by time, which has lost the colors it was covered with. And it is precisely in its ambiguity that the origin of white rests on the part of Marisa Albanese who, among the "hidden" sources of her choice, liked to quote a fragment of chapter 42 of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, dedicated to the concept of " whiteness ":" It is this elusive quality that makes the idea of whiteness [...] capable of increasing that terror to the extreme. Proof of this are the polar white bear, the white shark of the tropics and the albino whale: what else but their soft, flaky whiteness makes them those otherworldly horrors that they are? [...] ". “Here I find the origin of my white - writes the artist - In a 'whiteness' that carries both sublime and horrible characters, awakening images of beauty and terror. Over the years, I may have distorted Melville's message, thought to remember that for him too white is heavenly for those who observe its surface and horrifying for those who walk through its depth, but in many cultures white is also a symbol of renewal and marks the most important steps in the cycle of life, from birth to death. White also often dresses the woman's body and carries within itself, too frequently, signs of violence and discrimination. And it is this ambiguity that guided my choice ”.

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Via Settembrini (Palazzo Donnaregina) , 79
80139 Naples

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