{"id":5622,"date":"2026-01-14T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnamc.cultura.gov.it\/evento\/3701\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:57:12","slug":"3701","status":"publish","type":"evento","link":"https:\/\/gnamc.cultura.gov.it\/en\/event\/3701\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurizio Cannavacciuolo. PROMENADE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curated by Marco Tonelli with Angelo Bucarelli<\/strong><\/p>\n

20 January \u2013 1 March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Galleria Nazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna e Contemporanea<\/strong>, Rome, presents Promenade<\/strong><\/em>, a solo exhibition by Maurizio Cannavacciuolo<\/strong> (Naples, 1954), continuing the series of exhibitions associated with artists\u2019 donations.<\/p>\n

Installed at the beginning of the GNAMC\u2019s permanent collection itinerary, in the gallery dedicated to new acquisitions and developments, the exhibition is curated by Marco Tonelli with Angelo Bucarelli and organised with the support of Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio (Milan\/Todi) and Open Capital.<\/p>\n

The artist presents an installation comprising four large black-and-white oil paintings on canvas, accompanied by four painted ceramic vases, all created between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features Excelsior<\/em> (2018) and Hungry Angry Bird<\/em> (2019), each measuring 2 metres in height by 3 metres in width, alongside the monumental Ophtalmosaurus fugax<\/em> (2018), which measures almost 10 metres in width and 2 metres in height. The work depicts a kind of Byzantine royal procession, a promenade\u2014hence the title of the project, Promenade<\/em>\u2014through a magical garden of interrupted paths: a zone of free semantic exchange in which signals and visual rebuses of all kinds (optical<\/em>, illusionistic and ornamental elements, human faces and self-portraits of the artist himself) seem to form a fragmented mosaic and point towards a path that in fact leads nowhere.<\/p>\n

The installation is completed by Metempsychosis, Circle Song Seven<\/em> (2023), measuring 2 \u00d7 2 metres, which, at the end of the exhibition, will be donated to the Italian State and become part of the permanent collection of the Galleria Nazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna e Contemporanea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Almost as if recreating a kind of visual shock<\/em>, characteristic of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo\u2019s iconographies and non-linear juxtapositions, the black-and-white paintings are counterpointed by four brightly coloured glazed ceramic vases entitled Be very happy!<\/strong><\/em> (2022). Just over one metre high, they were made by Davide Servadei at Ceramica Gatti in Faenza.<\/p>\n

The underlying idea of Promenade<\/em> is to hyperstimulate the optical and articulated space of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo\u2019s rich iconographies, which function as true visual metaphors for the contemporary world and are painted according to superimposed schemes designed with extreme precision and elegance.<\/p>\n

The work Metempsychosis, Circle Song Seven<\/em> enriches the Gallery\u2019s collection with a vibrant pictorial expression representing the ironic and surreal microcosm of an artist who transforms the graphic mark into a global visual language, condensing the pervasive consumerism of postmodern iconography into a monochromatic two-dimensional form.<\/p>\n

Biographical Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maurizio Cannavacciuolo (born in Naples in 1954, lives and works in Rome) abandoned his studies in architecture in the mid-1970s and began his artistic career with the prestigious Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples. Among his solo exhibitions, notable presentations include those at Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud (Bali) in 1989; Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone in Rome in 1993 and 1997; Studio Guenzani in Milan in 1993 and 1998; Sperone Westwater in New York and Fundacion Ludwig de Cuba in Havana in 1997; Asprey-Jacques in London in 1999; Galleria Cardi in Milan in 2000; Franco Noero in Turin and Francesca Kaufmann in Milan in 2000; Museu da Republica in Rio de Janeiro in 2022; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Santiago, Chile, in 2003; and Galleria Sprovieri in London in 2003, 2006 and 2009. Other solo exhibitions include those at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead in 2005; A Lecture on Martial History<\/em> at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 2006 and 2016; Galleria Pack and Galleria Giovanni Bonelli in Milan in 2019; Ma non ho bicchieri come i tuoi<\/em> (with Claudio Massini) at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto in 2021; Don\u2019t Worry Be Happy<\/em> at Visionarea Art Space in Rome in 2023; Meditazioni<\/em> at MuMa in Milazzo and Introducing Suzie AIQ<\/em> at Cardo AI in Milan in 2024.<\/p>\n

He participated in the XIV Quadriennale di Roma<\/em> at the Galleria Nazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna in Rome in 2005 and in the V Biennale d\u2019Arte SIART<\/em> in La Paz in 2007. In 2013, his works were presented at Art Rio<\/em> at Galleria Progetti in Rio de Janeiro, while in 2016 he participated in the group exhibition Avanscena<\/em> at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. In 2019, he was invited to the XIII Biennale de l\u2019Havana<\/em> in Matanzas. In 2013, Via dei bambini<\/em>, a large walkable mosaic pavement, was inaugurated in the Municipality of Legnano. In 2025, he participated in the group exhibition EXTRA. Segni antichi\/visioni contemporanee<\/em> at Palazzo Baldeschi in Perugia.<\/p>\n

He has also exhibited in numerous other international contexts, including Osaka, London, Brussels, Budapest, Sarajevo and Frankfurt. Some of his works are held in the permanent collection of the Farnesina and in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, as well as at the Cilea-Quattro Giornate station of the Naples Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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