But where are the artworks?

But where are the artworks?

round table
May 29, 2024
6:30 PM
C/O SuperOtium
via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, 8 – 80135 Napoli

On 29 May 2024, at 6.30 p.m., starting with Marco Enrico Giacomelli’s book “Ma dove sono le opere d’arte?” we will engage Giacomelli himself and other local artists, critics, curators and thinkers in a dialogue on how artworks are changing with respect to the involvement and role of new audiences and the relationship between art and politics. We will soon announce the names of the various guests.

The event is part of the cultural program curated by Nicola Ciancio for SuperOtium (a project conceived by Nicola Ciancio and Vincenzo Falcione) and aligns with this season’s theme, “Look Closer,” inviting audiences to examine things closely to discover their details, depths, and imperfections.

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Marco Enrico Giacomelli (Turin, 1976), PhD in Aesthetics and professional journalist, studied philosophy at the universities of Turin, Bologna and Paris 8. From the turn of the century to early 2023, he was editor-in-chief and deputy editor first of Exibart.onpaper and then of Artribune Magazine. He teaches at NABA in Milan, the IED in Turin and the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona. He has written dozens of journalistic and academic articles, as well as a book on Documenta 13 (Ma dove sono le opere d’arte?, Castelvecchi, 2023), one on Mike Kelley (Di tutto un pop, Johan and Levi, 2014) and one on René Daumal (Un filosofo tra Patafisica e Surrealismo, Bulzoni, 2011). He has translated texts by Gilles Deleuze, Marc Augé, Nicolas Bourriaud and Boris Groys. The last exhibitions he curated were Don Yuan by Gianni Colosimo and Luisa Bruni (Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Turin 2023) and L’elefante nella stanza by Carlo Galfione (Il Fondaco, Bra 2024).

SuperOtium is a house in the heart of Naples, founded by Nicola Ciancio and Vincenzo Falcione, designed to welcome tourists, artists, travelers, and creatives. A meeting place where artist residencies, events, exhibitions, and accommodation coexist to inspire artists and creatives and challenge the assumptions of travelers, proposing new perspectives through which to view the city. The SuperOtium residency program has hosted, among others, Kensuke Koike, Pietro Gaglianò, Massimo Uberti, Hypereden, Bianca Felicori (Forgotten Architecture), Paz Ortùzar (in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute of Naples), Giovanna Silva (in collaboration with Lorenzo Xiques), Nuvola Ravera (in collaboration with Made in Cloister), Blase (in collaboration with ShowDesk), Yasser Almaamoun (in collaboration with the Goethe Institut), Khaled El Mays (in collaboration with Edit Napoli).