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Solo show
Verso
Museo / Pan - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
solo show - 03.12.22 - 22.12.22
in collaboration with Galleria Mood-Project
with the patronage of Municipality of Naples
with the support of Robert Walser Zentrum
with the contribution of Galleria Borbonica
texts in the catalogue :
"Towards the invisible" by Valentina Rippa
"Walking as a Philosophy of Life" by Reto Sorg
“VERSO” is an artistic project born from the collaboration between Marco Adinolfi and Massimo Cicala, a four-handed work inspired by the text “The Walk” (Der Spaziergang) by Robert Walser. The famous Swiss author tackled many themes in this literary masterpiece: journey, solitude, observation, getting lost, appearances. Drawing inspiration from these concepts, the elaborated works invite the visitor not to stop at the aesthetic and chromatic completeness of a declared "minimal" geometry but to go further, approach the works with curiosity, desecrate their inviolability, discover that in those paintings there are volumes that invade the space, that what seems continuous is only a reflection, that there are more intimate "conditions" to consider, that there is more than the declared appearance. Lingering, waiting and recognizing that beyond the "image" there is more, there is the detail that can only be discovered if we consider curiosity an essential condition of our existence.
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue VERSO
21.12.22
PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli - Sala Di Stefano
with Dino Morra ( Mood|project Gallery ), Marco Adinolfi e Massimo Cicala (Artists ), Costanza Pellegrini (Moderator ).
Group show
Disquiet vs Harmony
Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles (CA) USA
Group Show / 13.09.2025 - 11.10.2025
curated by Yujin Iris Jeong and Cynthia Penna
Disquiet vs Harmony brings together nine contemporary artists—four from Korea and five from Italy—whose works explore the aesthetic tension that exists in the liminal space between disquiet and harmony; unrest and balance; chaos and order. Curated by Cynthia Penna and Yujin Iris Jeong, this exhibition presents a timely, cross-cultural dialogue that seeks to excavate and articulate the role of art during times of unrest.
Amidst today’s climate of global uncertainty and fragmentation, this exhibition investigates art’s capacity to simultaneously contain dissonance and harmony. The nine artists from Italy and Korea—Alfonso Sacco, Danilo Ambrosino, Marco Adinolfi, Massimo ICicala, Max Coppeta, Michelle Oh, Ji Oh, YC Kim, and YoungHo Seock—address the central theme of disquiet vis-à-vis harmony through a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, and textiles, revealing unexpected parallels and resonances.
In Disquiet vs Harmony, art shows that harmony arises from the convergence of disparate yet inseparable elements, joined in a manner that produces an organic and coherent whole. It invites us to understand the world through frameworks of connection and collaboration—principles that we must internalize and enact in our daily lives in the face of the disquiet.
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The marks of our time
Casina dei mosaici di Villa Favorita - Ercolano (NA) / ITALY
Group Show / 10.05.2025 - 25.05.2025
curated by Cynthia Penna
in collaboration with Art 13 07 and Los Angeles Art Association
Under the patronage of: : Ente Ville Vesuviane - MIC - Ministero della Cultura - Comune di Ercolano
After Los Angeles, the exhibition THE MARKS OF OUR TIME arrives in Italy at the Casina dei Mosaici in Villa Favorita, Ercolano.
Curated by Cynthia Penna for Art1307, in collaboration with LAAA – Los Angeles Art Association, this exhibition marks the second stage of an international cultural exchange project. Seven Italian artists and seven Californian artists are invited to engage in a dialogue through painting, sculpture, and photography, exploring the theme of the marks of our time.
Curated by Cynthia Penna for Art1307, in collaboration with LAAA – Los Angeles Art Association, this exhibition marks the second stage of an international cultural exchange project. Seven Italian artists and seven Californian artists are invited to engage in a dialogue through painting, sculpture, and photography, exploring the theme of the marks of our time.
The marks of our time
LAAA - 825 Gallery - Los Angeles
Group Show / 18.01.2025
Curated by Cynthia Penna
In collaboration with the Los Angeles Art Association and Art 13 07
With the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
With the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
3X6
Ex Ospedale Militare di Napoli
Group Show / 19.10.2024 - 27.10.2024
Dino Morra Gallery presents 3x6, a project conceived and curated by Ernesto Esposito,
in the Special Projects section of Art Days Naples Campania | THE FOREST OF THREADS.
The event is organized by Attiva Cultural Projects,
The event is organized by Attiva Cultural Projects,
with the patronage of: Regione Campania - Municipality of Naples - Academy of Fine Arts of Naples - Foundation Italy Homeland of Beauty,
with the Matronage of the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Art - Madre Museum.
Special Projects: ART BY MATTEO NOVARESE - Dino Morra Gallery - Agovino Collection - NOH-ART in collaboration with Mimmo Scognamiglio Contemporary Art - T293 - 480 Site Specific - Bartolomeo Gatto Foundation
In 3 x 6, a project conceived and curated by Ernesto Esposito for Dino Morra Gallery, Stefano Avalis (Manta, 1995) and Eugenio Giliberti (Naples 1954) address the theme of formal geometries, while adopting profoundly opposite conceptual visions. Beatrice Alice (San Donà di Piave, 1992) and Gianluca Capozzi (Avellino, 1973) make use of figuration to bring to life fairy-tale or surreal representations of contemporary reality. Finally, Marco Adinolfi (Naples 1973), Massimo Cicala (Wuppertal, 1976) and Noemi Durighello (Feltre, 1996) use an abstract and informal language, inviting reflection on matter, volume, form, and the spatial dynamics that inhabit our everyday life.
Assoli
Galleria Design Sulmondo
Group show / 12.05.2023 - 23.06.2023
Design Sulmondo presents “ASSOLI’”, an art exhibition inspired by existentialism and focuses on the experience of solitude.
The artists Adinolfi and Cicala, Arnaud Boueilh, Josef Esposito, Sulmondo-Design, exhibit works expressing different sensibilities through installations, painting, sculpture, design.The “ASSOLI” exhibition aims to be a stimulating experience that invites visitors to a deeper contemplation and understanding of the complexities of solitude.
photo by Design Sulmondo
Re_st_Art_2
Dino Morra Gallery
Group show
11.05.23 - 11.06.23
Adinolfi and Cicala present :
Mutamenti - 2023 - Mixed technique ( acrylic threads, mirrors, plastic inserts, on wood)
Ri_quadro rosso - 2023 - Mixed technique ( synthetic wool, acrylic on wood )
Immagine 7 - 2022 - Mixed technique ( acrylic threads, steel threads and acrylic on wood )
"Adinolfi and Cicala, Federika Fumarola, Barbara Prenka, Sonia Riccio, Rotteveel and Vermeer, Mattia Varini are the artists chosen to discuss and reflect on the evolution of informal art today. A necessary examination given the onset of recent trends that see the return of the figurative on the contemporary scenes. While in the first edition of Re_st_Art there was a free dialogue between heterogeneous languages, the artists of this new edition have a common, predominantly pictorial vision of "non-form". are projected towards the search for a communication of the matter, through a personal and intimate reading of current social values."
( excerpt from the press release )