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The art does not go on holiday at the Madre Museum of Naples, which like last year and in 2013, will be open for tourists and residents, even during the whole month of August. 1 to 31, it will be possible to access and visit free the current exhibitions and collections, and in addition, participate to the summer activities of the gallery.
In particular, in the dining Re_Pubblica Madre, on the ground floor, you can visit the spectacular shows in situ realized by the French artist Daniel Buren, “As a child’s play”: a true miniature city, made of hypnotic circles, arcs colored, cylindrical towers, stands square and triangular pediments, which relates to the actual city, incorporating it in its archetypal forms, inside the museum. On the first floor of the building of Via Settembrini, you can admire the works of the collection site-specific, while, through the halls of the second floor and other areas such as the terrace, the courtyards, the atrium and the mezzanine, the public can view the new permanent collection in progress of the Madre, particularly the more than a hundred works of Per_formare a collection # 4. An exhibition that tells the history of avant-garde culture, with particular reference to what happened in Naples and Campania in the last fifty years, but at the same time explores the present and suggests the future, through the inclusion of artists who respond with new works in this story. The third floor of the museum houses instead the exhibition dedicated to Elaine Sturtevant, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century entitled Sturtevant Sturtevant, that revolves around the concept and practice of repetition, which “sees” the author relate to some of the personality iconic of her time, from the master of modernity Marcel Duchamp to the father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol and through Roy Lichtenstein and Paul McCarthy.
During the month of August also, every Saturday, Sunday and Monday, at 11 and 17, the Educational Services of the museum will offer a program of educational visits, which are also all free, and the current exhibitions that the collections. For information and reservations: tel. +39.081 19313016
Info on: www.madrenapoli.it
