{"id":4513,"date":"2020-11-06T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/evento\/maurizio-elettrico-supernaturalis-historia\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:09:10","slug":"maurizio-elettrico-supernaturalis-historia","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/en\/evento\/maurizio-elettrico-supernaturalis-historia\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurizio Elettrico – Supernaturalis Historia"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 30th \u2013 November 18th 2016<\/strong>
\nOPENING SEPTEMBER 30th h. 7:00 p.m.
\nPAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli<\/strong>
\nVia dei Mille 60, Napoli<\/p>\n

Supernaturalis Historia. Saga sulla Divina Natura del Potere Bioaristocratico (Saga on the Divine Nature of Bioaristocratic Power) <\/em><\/strong>is an exhibition curated by Eugenio Viola<\/strong> that brings together a corpus of works taking their inspiration from Lo scoiattolo e il Graal<\/em> (The Squirrel and the Grail) the monumental erotic epic saga in seven volumes conceived, written and illustrated by Maurizio Elettrico<\/strong> over the last ten years.<\/p>\n

Elettrico is a complex artist: erudite, flamboyant, irreverent, ironic, blasphemous, and iconoclastic, whose research feeds on a theory and practice of art conceived as transgression, while the always emphatically aesthetic formal aspect emerges from the hybridisation of boldly heterogeneous motifs and languages expressed through a variety of media that blend past and present, the complexity of myth, and the deviations of a secular sacrality. In this way, different stimuli converge into a glittering, playful and seductive imagination that not infrequently slides into a self-satisfied and ostentatious decorativism. As in his literary work, of which Lo scoiattolo e il Graal is a prime example, Elettrico contaminates different and very divergent literary genres: from the epic to fantasy, the historical novel to the cyber-erotic, to produce a narrative overflowing with theological, philosophical, heraldic, esoteric and alchemical references. The artist describes a futuristic and iniquitous world of war, love, sex, political intrigue, and religious extremism, where magic or science overcome human and natural limitations in general.<\/p>\n

The seven volumes, like the works exhibited here (paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations), produce a perverse mythology, populated by a number of self-aggrandising characters ideologically supported by overweeningly fanatical and intolerant religions. This is a hyperhumanist and dystopian future, where the earth is dominated by a new human species, the result of sophisticated genetic manipulations: “Bioaristocracy”, with a powerful artistic-demiurgical vocation, able to model both inorganic and living matter. Thanks to their “divine nature”, the Bioaristocratics reign over the other two human species that inhabit the Earth: the “Naturals”, similar to today’s humans, and the “Wild”, who look human but have animal intelligence.Hence the title of the exhibition, which, on the one hand, with a nod to the “classically” classificatory, makes ironic reference to Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia (77-78 CE), referring on the other hand also to the sci-fi component, amply represented in the three books, as in all Elettrico’s works: both are enriched and supported by the short circuit arising from the unsettling encounter between archaism and futurism.<\/p>\n

Bearing in mind this double register \u2013 the verbal and the visual, the works on display alternate with a generous array of texts. The first three volumes of the series, exhibited as elements of an installation, make up a monumental storyboard. The works, visually designed to suggest unusual combinations and alarming metamorphoses, in turn underpin a potentially infinite set of meta-narratives, creating a clever set of references and reflections that set off a continuous exchange of sign and signified between only apparently different forms of expression, in reality converging in a daring combination that Elettrico imposes on events and characters through subtle variations and games, as well as explosive representational displacements.<\/p>\n\n\t\t