"50 anni di amicizia 1974–2024"

The exhibition 50 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP 1974-2024 curated by Giuseppe Morra for the biennial period 2024-2026 focuses on the 50 years of this friendship and collaboration in the name or art. It offers a wide selection of works including relicts, pictorial actions, architecture, photographs and videos of the actions with the intent on recounting the intense work of the artist Hermann Nitsch.

The most substantial core of works consists in the relicts of the 135.aktion directed by Nitsch in 2012 in Cuba for the 11th biennial dedicated to the children of ISA University and the relicts of the 158.aktion of 2020, the last action of the master, which took place in the central hall of the Nitsch Museum in Naples.

The tour is complemented by the screening of Daniela Ambrosoli’s 2008 biographical film which retraces key moments in the life of the artist Hermann Nitsch with interviews and archive material, and the video of the 158.aktion 2020 sinfonia napoli action.

To expand your knowledge of the artistic philosophical thought of the O.M. Theater by Hermann Nitsch it is possible to consult the texts exhibited and present in the collection of the Library for Contemporary Arts.

If Hermann Nitsch opened Giuseppe Morra’s gaze on the unfathomable depths of the unconscious and its relationship with both the ancient and new kind of  “sacrifice” rituals, Morra took Nitsch to the most visceral city of Europe, making it his second homeland, paradoxically to the antipodes of the first. Vienna and Naples are so different, therefore they find themselves in that principle — very dear to Nitsch and very much alive in the Neapolitan soul — of the union of opposites, which has always been considered the masterpiece of life.