The representation of Mario d'Urso's archives, consisting of from giant open folders, involves the subdivision of space within each individual folder, carving out a series of compartments in which objects enhanced to the fullest are placed side by side to images, memorabilia and memorabilia. A pathway punctuated from a series of _wunderkammer _that reveal a lifestyle in which elegance and beauty are expertly crafted mischief to seduce women and men of power from around the world.

Like secret drawers of a cryptic eighteenth-century secretaire these cyclopean folders reveal the countless facets of even the most private moments of Mario's life.

The visitor, surprised by the estranging effect of the loss of proportion resulting from the size of the folders, will feel like a microscopic investigator who can access the secrets of the wizard of finance and the jet set, confidant of the world's most desirable women, trustee of the most powerful men.

The path has elements of continuity: the social life and parties (invitations, menus, photographs, letters); the high-ranking friendships, predominantly women, who are always present in every folder, i.e., the muses portrayed with Mario in tabloid scandal or glossy magazines; the covers, the articles: how much a to effect sentence uttered from Mario about Mario or written from someone else about Mario marked a life path marked by the constant spectacle of both the private and the public.

The phrases will themselves become objects, epigraphs, iconic snapshots that, like images fix many key moments in Mario's life.

The discontinuity, on the other hand, is represented by the two periods in Mario d'Urso's life: first a protagonist of the financial world and then an Italian politician.

The idea of the exhibition is to reveal the contents of Mario d'Urso's archive as they were found, almost like a scoop. A quintessential public man can, in rearranging his memory, reveal untold stories with unimaginable implications.

The goal is to focus on the figure of Mario d'Urso, his references and his visionary ability.

Being Neapolitan on a planetary scale as the foundation of a personality with a bursting human charge.

In the unveiled archive this element will be central.

Roberto Lucifero