MARIA ADELE DEL VECCHIO
MARIA ADELE DEL VECCHIO
Born in Caserta, IT, 1976. Lives and works in Rome, IT
EDUCATION
2005 - 2006
Filmklasse, with Mark Leckey, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2014
Shortlisted for Premio Furla 2015, 'The Nude Prize'
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Within, rather than above, Galleria Tiziana Di caro, Naples, IT
2014
Tonite let's all make love in London, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE
2011
Qui sembra ancora possibile, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, Parco del Pineto, Rome, IT
2008
No end is limited, curated by Stefania Palumbo, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, IT
SOLO PROJECTS
2014
Blue, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Quartiere Intelligente, Naples, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2015
ce l'ho / mi manca, Museo Mandralisca di Cefalù, Cefalù, IT
2014
Viaggio al termine della parola/Journey to the end of the word, curated by Antonello Tolve, Galleria Tiziana
Di Caro, Salerno, IT
Se il dubbio dello spazio ﾏ nello spazio, curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio and Nemanja Cvijanovic, Museo
MACRO, Rome, IT
2013
Die Dritte Dimension, Frutta Gallery, Rome IT
2012
Premio Roma Centro Storico, curated by Cecilia Casorati, Rome, IT
Door to Door, curated by Maura Picciau, Salerno, IT
2011
Badtime stories, Bedtime stories, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE
2009
Emergency Room, curated by Thierry Geoffrey, Julia Draganovic, Francesca Boenzi, PAN, Naples, IT
2008
Sistema Binario, curated by Sasa Janich, Adriana Rispoli and Eugenio Viola, Belgrado, RS Classroom #1,
curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, Project Room Museo MADRE, Naples, IT
Sistema Binario, curated by Adriana Rispoli and Eugenio Viola, subway station Mergellina, Naples, IT
A long time ago, last night, curated by Francesca Boenzi, Galerija Kortil, Rijeka, HR
2006
Falansterio, Supportico Lopez, Naples, IT
Rundagang, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2004
Tracce di un seminario, Careof, Milan, IT
2003
inCINEraci˜n, Galera Sandunga, Granada, ES
Luogo/non-luogo = nuovo luogo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Angela Vettese, ex church San
Francesco, Como, IT
2002
Entr’acte, The basement tape curated by Gino Giannuizzi, Bologna, IT
WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES
2008
Classroom #1, workshop curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Stefania Palumbo, with the
collaboration of Francesca Boenzi, Museo MADRE, Naples, IT
2003
Advanced course in Visual Art, visiting professor Richard Nonas, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
UNTITLED
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Untitled
2015
Decoltè di vernince, marmo, bulloni /varnished decoltè, marble, bolts
cm 20 x 35 x 35
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
UNTITLED
(dettaglio)
GENERAL SEMANTICS (IL NAUFRAGIO DELLA SPERANZA)
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
General Semantics (Il naufragio della speranza)
2015
Marmo, legno, vernice / marble, wood, varnish
dimensione variabile / variable dimension
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
GENERAL SEMANTICS (IL NAUFRAGIO DELLA SPERANZA)
(dettaglio)
HERSTORY
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Herstory
2011 – 2015
C-print
cm 64 x 34 (incorniciata /framed)
ed. 3 + 1 AP
POLLUTION #1 #2 #3 #4
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Pollution #1#2#3#4
2015
C-print su forex, legno / c-print on forex, wood
cm 26,5 x 130 x 8
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
RATS LIVE ON
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Rats live on
2015
Luce al neon /neon light
cm 8 x 70
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
ed. 2 + 1 AP
MALINCONIA #1
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Malinconia #1
2015
cristallo, ametista /crystal, amethyst
cm 10 x 15 x 15
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
MALINCONIA #2
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Malinconia #2
2015
cucchiaino, ossidiana /teaspoon,obsidian
cm 13 x 20 x 20
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
MALINCONIA #3
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Malinconia #3
2015
tazzina, muffa, geodi /coffee cup, mold, geòdis
cm 8 x 17 x 17
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
MALINCONIA #4
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Malinconia #4
2015
quarzi / quartz
cm 5 x 20 x 10
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
MALINCONIA #4
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Malinconia #5
2015
spilla, quarzo nero / brooch, black quartz
cm 14 x 14 x 10
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
MALINCONIA #6
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Landscape (Berlin) #malinconia n.6
2015
compensato, acrilico, nastro correttore, sodalite / plywood, acrylic, lift off, sodalite
30 x 25 x 1,5 cm
GLITTERNIG SCOTOMA
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Glittering scotoma
2015
specchio, smalto per unghie/ mirror, nail varnish
cm 17 x 33
photo: Sebastiano Luciano
WHITHIN, RATHER THAN ABOVE
Galleria Tiziana Di Caro inaugurates its new Naples premises, on the first floor of Palazzo de Sangro in
Piazzetta Nilo 7, on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 19:00. The inaugural event is the first solo exhibition by
Maria Adele Del Vecchio (Caserta, 1976) called Within, Rather Than Above, which includes works created
exclusively for the spaces of the new gallery.
The work of Maria Adele Del Vecchio is heterogeneous, as are the themes she deals with, from politics, to
history, from literature, to sociology, but all connected by a common principle: to overcome the tendency to
mass hypnosis, cancelling those automations that alter the behaviour of the human being. The title, Within,
Rather Than Above, refers to a specific approach which involves the desire to give back a renewed character
of essentiality to aesthetic contemplation: the idea is to work on the relationship, the “emotional
correspondences” that arise from everyday experience, from the direct contact with objects that become
works themselves, in an attempt to formulate a new language that contributes to the growth of awareness
of oneself and of the other in space. A cup in which the coffee dregs have become mouldy, a teaspoon and a
brooch in the shape of a Pierrot are the poetic elements of three of the five sculptures, The Melancholies,
imagined like female beings whose evocative power permeates objects and mineral ore referring to
situations and specific people. In this same emotional dimension, where the memory and poetry trace the
path on which to proceed, Maria Adele Del Vecchio presents General Semantics (Il naufragio della speranza
[The Wreck of Hope]), an installation that quotes the 1824 painting by Caspar D. Friedrich, whose plasticity
– impressive, given that it is an oil on canvas – is transferred to a third dimension which translates into sharp
marble. In this work the artist borrows (and this is already clear from the title) all the principles expressed
by Alfred Korzybski, and in particular that of non-identity, which he summed up in the famous expression
“the map is not the territory.” The empty stereograms, Pollution #1 #2 #3, #4, are works in which the
viewer is asked to probe the depth in which a graphic sign lies but which, this time, he/she will not find,
because the artist performs an illusion within the illusion, creating an image that looks stereoscopic, but in
fact is purely abstract. The short circuit that involves vision is even more clearly expressed in the work
Glittering Scotoma, a mirror with an area from which the artist has removed the layer of silver to emulate
the scintillating scotoma, a defect of vision consisting of a sort of blurred area that alters the field of vision.
The act of looking at oneself in the mirror compromises the field of vision and our virtual image is disrupted,
as is the neon sign RATS LIVE ON, in which the American poet Anne Sexton’s palindrome (Rats Live on No
Evil Star), which is written on her tombstone, was truncated and its content, in passing from one sentence
to the other, is overturned with great immediacy from concrete to poetic and vice versa. The exhibition
appears like a summary of references, hints, memories, a collection of diverse stories. The suggestions it
evokes are related to an exploration that Maria Adele Del Vecchio leads with a philological attitude, always
with an eye on her relentless aesthetic research.
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
Maria Adele Del Vecchio, vedute della mostra / exhibition views, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli
HERTORY
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Herstory
2014
luce neon / neon light
cm 10 x 75
ed. 3 + 1 AP
UNTITLED
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Untitled
2014
collage
40 x 50 cm
PAPAPAPAPAROLA (LA PROSE DU MONDE, MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY)
Maria Adele Del vecchio
papapapaparola (La prose du monde, Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
2013
carta, ritagli di libro / paper, book cuttings
71 x 51 cm
QUI SEMBRA ANCORA POSSIBILE
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Qui sembra ancora possibile
2011
performance al Parco del Pineto, Roma, c-print / performance at Parco del Pineto, Rome, c-print
cm 70 x 100
UNTITLED (AFTER LEWIS PAYNE)
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Untitled (after Lewis Payne)
2010
video
0,53 minuti / minutes
UNTITLED (AFTER LEWIS PAYNE)
(dettaglio)
NO END IS LIMITED
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
No end is limited
2008
Neon lights
cm 110
ed. 3 + 1 AP
DANDIES
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Dandies
2008
materiali vari / mixed media
dimensioni variabili / variable dimension
SELFPORTRAIT AS FADING ANTEA
Maria Adele Del vecchio
Selfportrait as fading Antea
2006
solvente su poster, incorniciato / solvent on poster, framed
98 x 72 cm