Contemporary art at Naples Airport
The first cycle of works from the collection of the Madre museum was inaugurated in the boarding hall of Naples airport, in the presence of Angela Tecce, President of the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Eva Fabbris, Director of the museum, and Roberto Barbieri, CEO of GESAC.
The project, the result of the collaboration between GESAC, the main museum of contemporary art in Campania and the Amici del Madre Association, was created to bring art to the airport and enrich the passenger experience with quality cultural content.
The first installation on display, Le massacre du printemps (2020) by French artist Mathilde Rosier (Paris, 1973), is a high-impact video work that intertwines dance, rituality and landscapes, evoking the fragile relationship between human beings and nature. Rosier reinterprets the scenic myth of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, transforming it into an "agricultural dance over Naples", where beauty and destruction alternate in a symbolic story of the conflict between natural creativity and anthropic action.
The artist proposes a spring far from the themes of rebirth alone, crossed instead by feelings of transformation and loss. The dancers seem to float above three emblematic places in the area: the greenhouses of Pompeii, the industrial port of Naples and the bay of Pozzuoli. The landscapes, in constant mutation, thus become a hymn to the vitality of nature and an invitation to imagine a future reconciliation between species.
The collaboration between the Donnaregina Foundation - Madre museum, GESAC and Amici del Madre, which began in spring 2025, is not limited to exhibitions at Naples airport: afternoon creative workshops dedicated to young people from the neighborhoods near the airport have also been organized. Among the projects carried out, a path on the sounds of nature and ancient civilizations curated by Walter Maioli, and a drawing workshop on Neapolitan symbolism, led by Marco Pio Mucci.
