ANGELO CASCIELLO, WORKS 1980 - 2024, from the artist's collection

The Fondazione Ente Ville Vesuviane with the patronage of the Regione Campania and the Matronage of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee, presents the exhibition of Angelo Casciello Opere 1980-2024 from the artist's collection. The exhibition, curated by Stefania Zuliani, offers through a selection of over sixty works an unprecedented look at the wide and articulated production of the artist, born in Scafati (Salerno) in 1957. Hosted in the rooms and courtyards of Villa Campolieto, the exhibition offers sculptures, paintings, drawings and maquettes that Angelo Casciello has chosen to keep in his collection over the years because they exemplify significant passages and outcomes of his research as an artist and his existential journey. This is therefore neither an anthological exhibition nor a retrospective built on the thread of chronology: Having exceptionally come out of the laborious rooms of the artist's atelier, the works selected and, in some cases, conceived for the spaces dense with history and signs of the Herculaneum villa, mark the crucial moments of a practice and thought of art that, without ever betraying the attention to the specific reasons of form and matter Casciello's debut in the art world in 1977 - has been nourished from the very beginning by anthropological moods and social interrogations, often measuring himself with the public dimension, with urban and rural living spaces and with the institutional places where civil and religious rites of the community are performed. Over the course of almost half a century, Casciello has thus passionately constructed a tale of ideas and materials whose vitality and tensions, past questions and future prospects the exhibition aims to restore, interweaving in an airy visual weft works ranging from the crucial 1980s - after a decisive solo show held at Lucio Amelio's gallery in 1979, In 1986, Casciello exhibited for the first time at the Quadriennale in Rome and at the Venice Biennale, then in Zagreb and Ljubljana - up to works created precisely for this exhibition (Pompei, 2024, a painting measuring 300 x 500 cm), thus underlining the coherence and, at the same time, the continuous movement of a research that has measured itself against the great international exhibition scene (Venice Biennale, 2006, 2011) while maintaining a strong and fertile link with the land and deep energies of the Vesuvian landscape.