Donazione al CAM di ARTIGIANI ’96

The donation of Ciriaco Campus's photographic installation adds to the more than 2000 works in the CAM's permanent collection.

Starting from Friday, April 11, at 6:00 PM, at the CAM Factory, the work ARTIGIANI '96 by Ciriaco Campus will be presented, a photographic installation donated by Lorenzo Riccardo, which enriches the permanent collection of the CAM_Contemporary Art Museum. Curated by Franco Riccardo, the event brings 10 life-size photographs of men portrayed live to the Casoria museum, in a posture that almost seems to capture them during a break from work. This craft is strongly characterized by their worn and marked clothing, while their gaze fixed on the observer seeks a continuous dialogue. Immersed in a black background, in a non-place that seems to decontextualize their reality, the craftsmen seem to take on a sculptural significance, almost models of an analog humanity that lives and breathes away from the digital, carrying with them the three-dimensionality of breath and sweat. Detached from the redefinition of the individual subject, the protagonists erase the separation between fictitious and real in a play of ambiguity that compels total acceptance. Nonetheless, a retro allure remains, perhaps a nostalgia for a world endowed with social stratifications and visual tools that emphasize the changing of time and space.
Antonio Manfredi, director of CAM:
“The exhibition with Ciriaco Campus's photographic installation titled ‘Artigiani '96,’ curated by Franco Riccardo and donated to the CAM Museum by Lorenzo Riccardo, marks the beginning of a new exhibition path, aimed at the realization of prestigious national and international projects and exhibitions. This initiative comes thanks to the support of important collectors and entrepreneurs, with the aim of promoting dialogue between art, culture, and innovation. It will be a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in the artistic universe of the CAM Museum and to share a moment of cultural exchange and growth together.”
Ciriaco Campus
Ciriaco Campus was born in Bitti (Nuoro). He lives and works in Rome.
He has taught sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts in L’Aquila, Milan, Sassari, Naples, and Rome.
Ciriaco Campus's research focuses on the representation of social themes in the media, the world of consumption and its imagery, and the conflictual dimension of the present, with a political but not ideological viewpoint. His work travels less trodden paths, continuously intersecting with the common goal of understanding reality in its continuous change. Among the most significant exhibitions held in public spaces since 2000: Rome – Galleria Comunale, Castel Sant’Angelo, Palazzo Venezia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, and Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna. Palazzo Reale of Naples, LIV Venice Biennale.

Starting at 9:30 PM, the doors of EXIT (a club inside the museum) will open for the usual Friday appointments for the event "MAKE ME FUNKY" with DJ sets, projections, live performances, and workshops.
The evening's guest is "The Parliament," a disco-funk trio (Andres Balbucea – Vocals and keyboards, Sergio Dileo – Bass, Andrea De Fazio – Drums) that is conquering Naples with its explosive mix of groove and euphoria. Composed of talented members of the Neapolitan music scene, who in recent years have brought their music worldwide (with bands like Nu Genea, Funkin' Machine, and Parbleu). Special guest of the event, Umberto Muselli.

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