"... but look at my age, go to end up on the moon, I of this season so 'used to to go to Capri! Holy crap..." (from Totò in the Moon, 1958)
In the solar system-our house-more than one hundred and fifty are counted. Mars has two, Pluto five, Neptune thirteen, Saturn twenty-one and Jupiter forty-seven. Only Venus and Mercury lack them; why? We do not know. What we do know is that we of satellites have one, indeed, Moon. What if we had two? What if there is also "The Other"? Then, since it is only a 'hypothesis, let's make it sixty: sixty Moons: one for each year of the life of the Spoleto Festival. What would our planet look like in the evening if it had many moons? to Spoleto, a place of fantasy and imagination par excellence, you can find out. MOONS is a light installation scattered around the historic center of Spoleto. Sixty luminous globes, with a diameter ranging from 50 cm to 1.20 m, strategically placed on towers, bell towers, palaces and roofs of the old town (and beyond) in such a way from as to provide an always "multiple" view of the 60 satellites that orbit the earth or that, mysteriously, have fallen on it. I have been playing with the moon and moons very seriously for more than twenty-five years now. to New York, to London, to Naples, to Rio de Janeiro, to Lisbon... now to Spoleto, it is a fatal attraction and I don't think I will ever tire of it.
information:
installation extended until Sept. 24
right-hand man Pietro Petrosino
Emaki production image and communication
staging** Andrea Bonilli**
with the support of Monini
With the collaboration of **Intavola, Chiavari Ltd.
Clarici Hotel, Trattoria La Barcaccia
He was born to Naples in 1955. In 1978 he moved to New York where he studied at the Art Students League and lived until 1997. After his beginnings as a painter Neri devoted himself to making large-scale site-specific installations in the U.S.to., South America and Europe. Among his best-known works are "Still Night" at the Clocktower Gallery (P.S.1) in New York in 1989, "180 Chairs to Capri," Via Krupp 1991, "The Writer" to London, Hampstead Heath, in 2005, now on permanent display at Villa Reale in Monza, "Luna & Laltra," permanent installation at Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples (2008), "Massimo Silenzio" at Circo Massimo in Rome in 2007, then replicated to Madrid (2008), Dubai (2009) and to Rio de Janeiro in 2012, and "Audioghost68" on Burri's Cretto to Gibellina (TP) in 2015. He currently lives and works to Rome.
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