Opere su carta, Ephemera e Oltre

Fondazione Morra Greco is pleased to announce Opere su carta, Ephemera e Oltre. In più atti, a new exhibition project dedicated to the Foundation’s collection. Opening with a prologue on September 10, 2025, the exhibition focuses primarily on works on paper. Drawings, watercolors, and collages are presented in dialogue with invitations, writings, and other archival materials, offering an almost archaeological perspective on the collection’s history and inviting visitors to explore the archival processes that are an intrinsic part of each artwork’s life.

Spread across the first, second, and partially the ground floor of the Fondazione, the exhibition also includes installations, multiples, and a video work.

Throughout its duration, the exhibition will not remain static; on the contrary, it will evolve through a series of successive “variations” or “acts,” inspired by the surrealist game cadavre exquis. This participatory reinstallation process will actively engage different audiences: professionals, community members, and people of various age groups. Each act or variation will offer a new discovery and a fresh perspective, made possible through a mediation program developed in close collaboration between the Foundation’s departments (education, curatorial, and installation), local associations, universities, and partner institutions within the EDI Global Forum network.

The reinstallation of works will be facilitated by a modular and mobile display system composed of bookshelves, desks, and shelving—furnishings that evoke the aesthetics of the archive or storage spaces where artworks often reside when not on display. Through the playful, collective, and emotional mechanism of cadavre exquis, the concept of the archive will be reinterpreted in a dynamic way, and the entire exhibition format will be open to reconfiguration. Participants will be able to display all, some, or none of the initially selected works, thereby generating new narrative pathways.

Each iteration will last approximately fifteen to twenty days, during which time participants will have the opportunity to study the selected works from the Collezione Morra Greco in preparation for the next act. Every iteration will be distinguished by a new curatorial configuration, a new exhibition title, an accompanying narrative text, and dedicated professional documentation.

Like a true group game, participation in the exhibition will be guided by a set of rules – installation guidelines, in this case – that will challenge participants to navigate the constraints and possibilities of the spaces within Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino. This initiative offers much more than a chance to experiment with curating; it becomes an opportunity to explore the importance of unconscious imagination and the automatic processes of thought. Through the collective and creative experience of cadavre exquis, the public will be able to explore how such mechanisms can generate new and unexpected exhibition narratives.

Opere su carta, Ephemera e Oltre. In più atti, with its many variations, seeks to rethink roles and functions within the museum space, questioning the boundaries between archive and exhibition, and proposing a fusion of curatorial, educational, logistical practices and direct audience involvement. In doing so, it calls for active participation in the creative process.

The first act – ti attende il filo spinato, la vespa, la vipera, il nichel (from the magazine Documento Sud, 1960, no. 3) – curated by Giulia Pollicita, will open to the public on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. The dates and contents of subsequent chapters will be announced progressively and shaped by the contributions of the people involved in the project.

FB, GP

Act I – for you waits barbed wire, asp, wasp, white

Act II – El mapa de los autores perdidos

Act III – Il corpo surriscaldato è una fabbrica sottopelle

Progetto cofinanziato a valere sulle risorse FSC 2021/2027, DGR 616 2024. Piano Strategico Cultura e Turismo 2024/2025 – Progetto Global Forum Mostre d’arte contemporanea EDI 2025.