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Provocative, sarcastic, perhaps sacrilegious, but deeply polished. Opens tomorrow Saturday, October 3, at 17, in the hall of the former prisons of Castel dell’Ovo in Naples, the exhibition “Latte di mamma” of Neapolitan artist Isotta Bellomunno that, after the success of “the coffin boat” in Gulf waters, back to “amaze” the audience with a new job.
Drawings, photographs, installations and performances through which the artist makes a personal transposition of the essence of the most intimate and profound “feminine”, between religiosity, popular belief and mythology.
“Latte di mamma – explains Bellomunno – is that heat / nourishment we seek throughout life, in the same way that we attach to the womb at the time of birth. It’s the union between man and animal that turns iconography religious to remind us what to look for in the form of the sacred”.
Starting from the theme of this archetype “mother”, Isotta reflects the presence, not only mystical, the religious perception in contemporary society, where consumption has almost a new form of idolatry.
“Isotta – tells the curator Chiara Reale – is a lactans Mary (Our Lady topless, symbol of the Mother of all Christians and of the Church with her power of spiritual nourishment) to the breast, in this case for bovine reference to Isis, it is attached to a milking machine from intensive farming, a clear reference to a spirituality and religious feeling subject to economic resource and source of financial gain. “Latte di mamma” – continues – is not simply an instrument of social protest, or at least does not want to be on top of everything. In it there is a particularly strong personal element, the search for a bond established first of all, the recovery of materiality, physical contact before the spiritual”.
The exhibition, which will be open until 13 October, is sponsored by the moral of the Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples.
