Gabriele Napoli
ABOUT
1999
born in Desio, IT
lives and works in Seregno, IT
EDUCATION
2023
MA Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, IT
2021
BA Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, IT
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Miart, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Milano, IT
Piazzetta Rizzoli 1, curated by Elsa Barbieri, Museo Arte Contemporanea Cavalese, IT
Arte Fiera, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bologna, IT
2024
Artissima, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Turin, IT
Figure archetipali dell’arte dal Medioevo alla Contemporaneità, curated by Giacomo Agosti, Museo di San Pietro all’Orto, Massa Marittima, IT
12.04.2024, VIN VIN, Wien, AT
2023
Mirabilis, Palazzo Meravigli, Milano, IT
2021
Osservatorio X, Superstudio, Milano, IT
Muselmann, Memoriale della Shoah, Milano, IT
Let’s Meet on a Cloud of Freedom, De Pietri Artphilein Foundation, Lugano, CH
Né tutto del nulla, né nulla del tutto, Galleria civica, Seregno, IT
2019
Real presence – flashback, curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri, Kulturni Centar Magacin, Belgrade, RS
Accademia Aperta, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, IT
STATEMENT
His work ironically gets back the concept of painting as a trompe l’oeil in a new imaginative way of looking at reality. In their physical vitality, the canvases of Napoli are a sign of contemporaneity but at the same time a tribute to traditional painting. The stratification of material signifies the long cultural and anthropological influence that determines belonging to a “place”, to a community. Actually, this often means being involved in the management of a complex legacy. The past is therefore a significant source, but it is erased and blurred, subverted until it becomes “something else”.
The painting resonates with an echo that inserts darkness into the welcoming warmth of a chalet, in a nocturnal environment populated by countless voices, against which it is not possible to deploy defenses since they do not manifest themselves openly. Gabriele Napoli sets up a playful relationship with the viewer, prompting to ask himself a series of questions with any certain answer. The aim seems being to create an aura of ambiguity and mystery that attracts his interaction.