Antiquitas in Luce

The solo show of Laddie J. Dill at Archaeological Museum of Napoli : Antiquitas in Luce, starts on Thursday May 4th .
The exhibition is curated by Ornella Falco and Cynthia Penna and has been organized by the Archaeological Museum and the Cultural Institution ART1307.
The vernissage will be held on Thursday May 11th at 5,30 at the presence of the artist.
The exhibition has the high Patronage of the Consulate of United States of America in Napoli and has been sponsored by F.A.R.T. Company.
The exhibition will be opened til July 3rd
Catalog edited by Marchese Editore Napoli
The Archaeological Museum of Napoli presents the solo exhibition of Laddie J. Dill , one of the greatest personality of the Californian art movement “Light and Space”.
This movement , born in California in the ‘60ies, has been brougth to visibility of the public by Getty Museum and focalizes the artistic research on the interaction between materials and light.
Peculiarity of Dill’s art is the introduction in the artistic world of materials which have never been specifically destinated and used in the arts, like neon tubes, industrial aluminum, cements, dirth which in his hands have been manipulated in such a way to acquire unparalleled sense of poetry, dream, and emotion.
“The two installations made of sand, earth and neon lights which the artist has created especially for the Archaeological Museum of Naples are inspired by a clear intention: to render the feeling of unreality characterizing the atmosphere in the venue tangible. Those who visit the museum are impressed by the lavishness and opulence of both container and content, that is to say Greek and Roman masterpieces that reveal themselves to the gaze of the public: A typical museum designed for the presentation of antique art.
The shades of the marble – white, green and grey – dominate the interiors of the museum; the Greek and Roman portrait busts lining the entrance hall of the museum create a kind of corridor in which the visitors linger and get their bearings before they venture into the exhibition rooms. It is here, in this symmetric, orderly and calm space, that Dill has placed an installation intended to upset the expectations of the museum goers: the access, the very fact of being able to proceed in the museum interior are thwarted by a composition that is concrete yet ethereal and unreal, made of earth, sand and above all light. It upsets the balance created by the alternation between white and grey marble of the environment and the exhibited works, disrupting the equilibrium of the whole interior.
Yet this strong visual impact immediately leads to the creation of a new dialogue, of a different visual perception of the interior; a dialogue based on the perception of light and color. Indeed, all the walls near the installation change color, taking on accents of drama and at the same time of total unreality.
Pinkish columns become confused with the black volcanic earth placed on the floor; this color, with the accents of pink, appears completely alien to the setting; indeed, it envelops the visitor in a metaphysical and unreal atmosphere that is quite unsettling.
The sculptures seem to levitate and float in the space; they appear to have lost their material substance, to the point of becoming weightless. The whole classic concept of the plasticity of traditional statues is challenged by the visual perception of the whole, while no longer seems either real or realistic. Everything is dematerialized, in a vision that no longer consists of seeing, but of perceiving. The onlooker is immersed, tout court, in a surreal atmosphere of transparency of rarefaction, eventually coming to doubt his or her own vision.” (Cynthia Penna)

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LADDIE JOHN DILL – ANTIQUITAS IN LUCE
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli ed ART 1307
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Antiquitas in Luce

Apre Giovedì 4 Maggio 2017 presso il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (piano terra) la personale di Laddie John Dill dal itolo “Antiquitas in Luce“, a cura di Ornella Falco e Cynthia Penna e organizzata dal Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli e all’Associazione Culturale ART 1307. Vernissage Giovedì 11 Maggio 2017 dalle ore 17 e 30 alla presenza dell’artista.
La mostra, che gode del patrocinio del Consolato Generale degli Stati Uniti d’America e che vede come sponsor tecnico F.A.R.T. sarà visitabile fino al 3 Luglio 2017.
La mostra è corredata del catalogo edito da Marchese Editore.

Nelle prestigiose sale del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli giunge l’opera di Laddie John Dill, fra i principali esponenti del “Light and Space”, movimento artistico, nato in California e storicizzato grazie all’intervento del Getty Museum, che fa della luce e della sua interazione con i materiali, i principali oggetti di indagine. Peculiarità dell’arte di Dill in quanto “Sperimentatore di Luce” è stata proprio la ricerca e l’introduzione di elementi “estremi” all’interno del mondo dell’arte, con l’utilizzo e la anipolazione di materiali non precipuamente devoluti all’uso artistico: tubi di neon, allumini industriali, cementi, terre che, fra le mani di Dill acquistano un’ineguagliabile poeticità.

Napoli – Antiquitas in Luce, mostra di Laddie John Dill al Museo Archeologico

Al piano terra del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli dal 4 maggio è in scena la personale di Laddie John Dill, dal titolo “Antiquitas in Luce”, a cura di Ornella Falco e Cynthia Penna, e organizzata dal Mann e dall’associazione culturale “ART 1307”.

La mostra, che gode del patrocinio del Consolato Generale degli Stati Uniti d’America e che vede come sponsor tecnico “Fart” sarà visitabile fino al 3 luglio prossimo.

Laddie John Dill è fra i principali esponenti del “Light and Space”, movimento artistico, nato in California e storicizzato grazie all’intervento del Getty Museum, che fa della luce e della sua interazione con i materiali, i principali oggetti di indagine. Peculiarità dell’arte di Dill in quanto “Sperimentatore di Luce” è stata proprio la ricerca e l’introduzione di elementi “estremi” all’interno del mondo dell’arte, con l’utilizzo e la manipolazione di materiali non precipuamente devoluti all’uso artistico: tubi di neon, allumini industriali, cementi, terre che, fra le mani di Dill acquistano un’ineguagliabile poeticità.
“Le due installazioni di sabbie, terre e neon concepite per il Mann.

Con le sue installazioni Laddie John Dill traspone l’arte classica in “arte percettiva”: una tipologia di arte contemporanea che sviluppa e tocca molteplici “sensi” dello spettatore, un’arte che, attraverso una sorta di decomposizione visiva della materia, costruisce e ricompone una nuova opera con diversa materialità.

LADDIE JOHN DILL – ANTIQUITAS IN LUCE

Mann – Inaugurazione di Laddie John Dill e la sua mostra “Antiquitas in Luce”. Ringraziamo tutti gli intervenuti e vi invitiamo a visitare la mostra che sarà aperta fino al 3 luglio.