Special places traced in the documents of the Historical Archive of the Bank of Naples, narrated and photographed.
On Thursday 28 September at 17 pm, at the headquarters of the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, the presentation of the volume Documento monumento, c'arte in fotografia edited by Bianca Stranieri with photographs by Federica Gioffredi is scheduled.
Participants: Gabriele Capone, Superintendent of Archives and Bibliography of Campania, Giulio Sodano, Director of the Department of Letters and Cultural Heritage, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (DiLBeC), Maria Gabriella Pezone, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", greetings from Orazio Abbamonte, President of the Banco di Napoli Foundation.
"The Foundation has supported this first attempt to create an artistic guide in embryo - comments Abbamonte - that can, without ever transcending well-founded historical data, offer new and dense information on places and monuments of the city of Naples".
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The documentary route starts from the area of the decumani, Palazzo Ricca, home of the Banco di Napoli Foundation, crosses the Pio Monte della Misericordia and San Paolo Maggiore, then cuts south towards the Girolomini complex, extends to the Teatro San Carlo and the nearby church of San Ferdinando, and then returns to the Greek heart of Neapolis, at the church of Santa Maria del Popolo agli Incurabili. "The project was born from the desire to encourage the public, through photographic images, - explains the curator Stranieri - a special evocative process of the spaces identified in the documents of the Historical Archive of the Bank of Naples, whose apodissiary collection was recently inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register".
Federica Gioffredi's shots, which accompany this artistic journey, are intentionally in black and white, to recall the two fundamental elements of the archive: paper and ink. "The images are not necessarily a precise transposition of the document - comments Gioffredi - but they intend to create a suggestive correlation with it".
The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication containing seven documents from different periods, featuring a photograph of the document itself on one side and a full-page, evocative image on the other. In this debut exhibition, the image is by Federica Gioffredi, already well-known at the Foundation for her presentation of the Four Elements of Kosmo last January. This time, she adds the "fifth essence" to the four elements, creating a magical connection between documents and monuments. The visual journey was created in collaboration with two scholars and promoters of the documentary heritage of the Banco di Napoli Historical Archives: Sabrina Iorio and Luigi Abetti.
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