The
new Contemporary Art Museum of Naples –Madre– is
inaugurating a large retrospective of almost five decades of
work with your active involvement.
Individual
exhibitions are a new phenomenon. The first of a living artist
was held, I think, some time in the 1920s or 1930s. There was a
change in the painter's importance. He started to present himself
on a different plane. A little like the literary figures of the
19th century. Individual exhibitions have a dramatic effectiveness.
For this reason, they need to have a reason for being. At least
those held by painters. There should be a motive for assembling
all these things. It is not to commemorate or demonstrate one's
own bravery (excellence). The motive is to present a drama with
precise objectives. The show we are mounting is an attempt to produce
a 'unique act' something which, at least at the present moment,
is not divisible.
