A YEAR OF EXHIBITIONS AT THE IRPINO MUSEUM
March 4, 2023 – March 9, 2024

IRPINO MUSEUM
COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE CARCERE BORBONICO – BOURBON PRISON MONUMENTAL COMPLEX

4th – 25th March
PANIC ROOMS – GIANLUCA CAPOZZI
curated by Adriana Rispoli
Artistic Director Ernesto Esposito

The Province of Avellino with the Technical-Scientific Coordination of the Irpino Museum and the “S. e G. Capone” Library organise a rich programme of exhibits in collaboration with both local and non-local artists, associations and art galleries. The exhibition programme “A year of exhibitions at the Irpino Museum” will start with “Panic Rooms – Gianluca Capozzi”, a solo exhibit by artist Gianluca Capozzi from Avellino. A series of unpublished interior paintings will be displayed in the exhibition rooms of the Irpino Museum, in the moving location of the Bourbon Prison.

The exhibition will open on Saturday, March 4th at 5 pm.

According to Adriana Rispoli, the curator of the exhibition, Capozzi’s painting is a way of researching and expressing an intrinsic existential dimension.

With his exhibition “Panic Rooms”, the artist wants to transport the observer into an apparently reassuring context reminiscent of the bourgeois interiors of the 1970s. In reality, the observer is abandoned to a sense of voyeurism. While recalling the colours and techniques of Impressionism, the artist overturns the axiom of painting en plein air through the obsessive repetition of interiors whose thresholds – doors, stained glass windows, windows – deliberately elude any reference to the external landscape.

A panic room is theoretically a protected environment, Capozzi’s Panic Room, on the contrary, is a place of hallucination. The human absence is replaced by an overabundance of decorative details that explode in a kaleidoscope of colours. The rooms then fill up with elusive characters, silhouettes of women, men or children who, confined within four walls, hover in a psychedelic atmosphere and in the absence of gravity. In this otherworldly and claustrophobic dimension, the enclosure of a flat becomes the setting to represent the invisible, but also to denounce the unspeakable.

The exhibition will be available until March 25th, 2023 at the following times:
from Tuesday to Saturday
9 am – 1 pm (last admission 12.30 pm)
4 pm – 7 pm (last admission 6.30 pm)

Free admission

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