From January 25th, from Monday to Friday, the MAV, the Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum, reopens to the public in complete safety.
And on January 27, on the Day of Remembrance, so as not to forget the tragedy of the Holocaust, the installation “Die Neue Bewegung” by the Neapolitan artist Christian Leperino will be inaugurated on site.
For the MAV museum, this restart represents a return to the future: the narration of what was the great beauty of the Roman cities and homes on the slopes of Vesuvius and beyond, before the devastating and tragic eruption of 79 AD, through the technological magic of the latest version MAV 5.0 - Virtual multi Reality, the most advanced ever which, since October 2019, has radically revolutionized the way of living the cognitive experience of virtual travel, scientifically validated several times, in the life and splendor of the main archaeological areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Baia, Stabia and Capri, to better understand their past with the eyes of a traveler from another time.
After this suspended time, due to the coronavirus pandemic, 2021 will still be a difficult year, as, despite the arrival of vaccines, people's mobility will continue to be limited and consequently the use of cultural heritage will remain limited and local. It is therefore time for a joint effort to reinvent ourselves, to attract the public of the territory, always maintaining a high-quality offer. But there is also another challenge, post-covid, that awaits all Italian museums, that of digitalization, to offer the general public virtual tours to discover our cultural treasures: a challenge that the MAV, the Virtual Archaeological Museum of Ercolano has been carrying forward, as the leader, for a good 12 years, having as its mission the narration of the past with the eyes of the future.
The MAV is the place where, through technology and light, the memory of our past is restored, giving shape to the invisible, the denied, the missing: to what can no longer be seen and to what is not yet visible. A place to visit in complete safety throughout the week as the President of the CIVES Foundation - MAV of Ercolano, Luigi Vicinanza, hopes: "A visit to a museum is food for the mind. In particular if the museum, as in the case of the MAV, offers a high-level digital menu. We reopen with something new, a concrete contribution to the resumption of cultural activities in Ercolano and the Vesuvian area: a video installation created by Christian Leperino on the occasion of the day of remembrance. Civil commitment, contemporary art and digital culture combined in the same place, because the MAV is a living museum. We also hope that the government will authorize the reopening of museums on weekends as soon as possible; it is contradictory to deny attendance at a museum on Saturday or Sunday, the safest and most controlled public places there are”.
And precisely, on the occasion of this long-awaited reopening and the Day of Remembrance, the MAV of Ercolano will inaugurate on January 27 the work “Die Neue Bewegung” by the artist Christian Leperino.
“The new movement” (Die Neue Bewegung) is the title of the visual experimentation of the Neapolitan artist dedicated to the MAV and the Day of Remembrance, in order not to forget the tragedy of the Holocaust, preventing removals and attempts at absolution, as Leperino explains: “For a comparison with the community, on the Day of Remembrance, I superimposed a double image, a double vision that came to me from memory, which is summarized in the gesture of a shoveler, of a body that shovels the earth in a compulsive, syncopated way. This vision leads us to a double reading of the work, on the one hand we have the archaeologist who is committed to making fragments of culture re-emerge from the past, on the other hand we have the body of a deportee who shovels senselessly in the concentration camps, mortified and humiliated by the Nazis. They are two similar moments but with different meanings in the history of humanity that overlap in a moving design almost telluric like the Vesuvian earth”.
The installation will remain on display from January 27 to February 12, 2021.
Christian Leperino (Naples 1979). Painter and sculptor, in his research he intertwines the theme of the urban landscape with reflections on time and the memory of places. In his sculptures he alternates modeling with casts from life, traces of a living body, of an object, of a fragment of art from the past. Matter that absorbs, preserves and returns stories, forms, moods, in a dialogue between presence and absence, mirages of beauty and the rubble of history. He teaches Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. His works are present in museum collections and public spaces, including the MADRE museum in Naples, the MMOMA-Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the ICT in Tokyo, the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea in Suzzara, the Naples-Mergellina Station, the Cathedral of the Assumption, the Aragonese Castle in Ischia.
The installation “Die Neue Bewegung” will also be visible at the following link on the MAV website www.museomav.it/Leperino with a video interview with the author.
Opening days and times from Monday 25th January:
The Museum will be open, according to the provisions, from Monday to Friday from 10 am to 16.00 pm (last admission).
The area open to the public will be the museum route, the room for viewing the film on the eruption of Vesuvius and, from the 27th, the location of the installation dedicated to the Day of Remembrance, “Die Neue Bewegung” by the artist Christian Leperino.
The entrance ticket costs 5 euros.
Free entry for children up to 6 years of age
Reservation required and ticket purchase only online at the link: https://www.museomav.it/prodotto/ticket-mav/
For all information on the museum access plan, please consult the page at the link: https://www.museomav.it/piano-di-accesso/
All the information for the visit can be found at this link: https://www.museomav.it/visita/
MAV – VIRTUAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: www.museomav.it
Via IV Novembre 44 – Ercolano (NA)
E-Mail: info@museomav.it
Tel: 081 777 68 43 / 081 777 67 84
Article published on 21 January 2021 - 19:04
