'Picasso and Naples', Arzano and Casalnuovo together to celebrate the famous artist

The Giacomo Leopardi Social Library Museum, in collaboration with the D'Auria-Nosengo Comprehensive Institute of Arzano, accompanied by Headmistress Fiorella Esposito, have given voice to the relationship between the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the city of Naples.

"Picasso and Naples," a regional project by the small Casalnuovo Museum, and the eTwinning project Europic@sso, conducted entirely in Spanish by the third-year students of the D'Auria-Nosengo Middle School in Arzano, take the relationship between Naples and Picasso abroad.

The Arzano students, acting as tour guides, illustrated in Spanish and Italian the artist's most important works from his four artistic periods—Blue, Pink, African, and Cubist—but above all, explored and disseminated the artist's interest in Neapolitan folk theater, particularly Pulcinella and Harlequin.

Thanks to an exciting visit to the small museum, led by Giovanni Nappi, the children from Arzano showed their Spanish and French friends the Neapolitan art of the nativity scene, with live demonstrations of works by masters from San Gregorio Armeno (with particular emphasis on the Pulcinella statuettes).

Each of the children then “adopted” one of the 100 Picasso lithographs held by the Museo Biblioteca Sociale Giacomo Leopardi.

The project “Picasso and Naples, 2023” was developed by the CSN CENTRO STUDI APS and co-financed by the Campania Region as part of the contributions for cultural initiatives provided for by LR 7/2003 art. 11.