"Naples...one of the greatest European capital of culture"
The "Impossible Exhibition" will be hosted at the San Domenico Maggiore Convent. TheConvent is a tangible symbol of the universality of Naples, in fact SanDomenico complex was the place where Thomas Aquinas, follower of theAristotelic philosophy, taught, it is the place where Tommaso Campanellastudied and where Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet and astrologer, lived.
The "Impossible Exhibition" on Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio, with its immense and fascinating effect of suggestion and pedagogical power is an important exampleof how art and, in general, humanities, may take advantage of the new digitaltechnologies, especially in terms of popularization. There no exhibition oforiginal works that could realistically be representative of the entireproduction of the greatest artists of the past.
The history of art is characterized by various techniques: woodcut, etching, drypoint, lithography,analogic and digital photography as well. According to this point of view,reproducibility is peculiar aspect of modernism.
The didactic nature of the exhibition leads us to think that San Domenico Convent can become a "Houseof the digital culture", a kind of laboratory for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts and for the "digital natives" that measure up tothe new forms of communication, with the language of new media and with thepotentiality of the meeting between humanistic and scientific culture. Beauty and truth are open to a dialogue, that will inevitably involve many youngpeople and visitors as well.
At the same time, the"Impossible Exhibition" will also be the setting of conferences, lectures and performances inspired by the life and works of the three greatartists; the leitmotif will also be debates on Benjaminian philosophy that represents the real inspiration of this project, or in other words, "thework of art in the age of digital reproduction".
Nino Daniele
Alderman for Culture, Naples
The "Impossible Exhibition" will be hosted at the San Domenico Maggiore Convent. TheConvent is a tangible symbol of the universality of Naples, in fact SanDomenico complex was the place where Thomas Aquinas, follower of theAristotelic philosophy, taught, it is the place where Tommaso Campanellastudied and where Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet and astrologer, lived.
The "Impossible Exhibition" on Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio, with its immense and fascinating effect of suggestion and pedagogical power is an important exampleof how art and, in general, humanities, may take advantage of the new digitaltechnologies, especially in terms of popularization. There no exhibition oforiginal works that could realistically be representative of the entireproduction of the greatest artists of the past.
The history of art is characterized by various techniques: woodcut, etching, drypoint, lithography,analogic and digital photography as well. According to this point of view,reproducibility is peculiar aspect of modernism.
The didactic nature of the exhibition leads us to think that San Domenico Convent can become a "Houseof the digital culture", a kind of laboratory for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts and for the "digital natives" that measure up tothe new forms of communication, with the language of new media and with thepotentiality of the meeting between humanistic and scientific culture. Beauty and truth are open to a dialogue, that will inevitably involve many youngpeople and visitors as well.
At the same time, the"Impossible Exhibition" will also be the setting of conferences, lectures and performances inspired by the life and works of the three greatartists; the leitmotif will also be debates on Benjaminian philosophy that represents the real inspiration of this project, or in other words, "thework of art in the age of digital reproduction".
Nino Daniele
Alderman for Culture, Naples
