The first names of EDIT Napoli

In the space of a very few editions, EDIT Napoli - curated and directed by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi - has become one of the most important events related to design in Italy, bringing to the scene an unprecedented mix of the city's historic and sometimes very sumptuous locations, some of the more contemporary stylistic experiments that come from the world of design.
 

Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi, Archivio di Stato di Napoli, ph. Francesco Squeglia

The 2024 edition, scheduled from 11 to 13 October, will take place between the State Archives of Naples, where the more trade fair-type activities are held, and a program of widespread exhibitions entitled EDIT CULT, involving various symbolic places of the city including the Royal Palace, the Royal Mineralogical Museum, the Crystalline Hypogeum, the San Carlo Theatre, the Pizzofalcone Subsidiary Office of the State Archives, the Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum and the Church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio in Bow.
Every year, the curatorship creates new dialogues between containers, architectural contexts and the works or products on display, providing different interpretations from edition to edition and to be continually reinterpreted thanks to the changing role of these codes comparisons.



Cassina iMaestri Collection, Hill House, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ph. © Mattia Balsamini

Among the first protagonists of the program of the sixth edition, EDIT Napoli announces the collaboration with Cassina, which will be the protagonist inside Palazzo Reale, with a tribute to the Neapolitan architect, designer and professor Filippo Alison who in 1973 created the famous Cassina iMaestri Collection . The Court Theatre, set up by the architect Ferdinando Fuga in 1768, will open the curtain on the research that Alison dedicated starting from the 1970s to the furnishings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, true milestones in the history of design.



ABET Laminati

ALPI, on the other hand, a leading company in the production of decorative surfaces in composite wood, will be with "Abet è 1000 colori..." - an installation conceived as a tribute to the Neapolitan city by the design curators Giulio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni - on the terrace of the Subsidiary Headquarters of the State Archives in the Pizzofalcone district. The location, a terrace overlooking Vesuvius, will be exceptionally open to the public during the three days of EDIT Napoli.



Ipogeo Dei Cristallini © Archivio dell'Arte Luciano e Marco Pedicini

Also returning to EDIT Napoli is Allegra Hicks, famous for her works that blend art and craftsmanship and who this year will present a project inspired by Neapolitan legends. At the center of her work will be the myth of the mermaid Partenope and the egg she laid before dying, which is said to be hidden in the foundations of Castel dell'Ovo. Hicks' work will be exhibited at the Cristallini Hypogeum, an evocative place, as well as evidence of Hellenistic painting and architecture, located in the heart of the Sanità-Vergini district.



Teatro di San Carlo © Luciano Romano

The curtain will then rise at the San Carlo Theater on the sets of Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" created by the architect Kengo Kuma for Alcantara. “Shiwa Shiwa” is the title chosen by Kuma, which means fold-furrow and indicates a Japanese concept referring to the curvilinear progression of nature, to its elusiveness. A vision perfectly identified by Alcantara and the choice of a highly innovative and sensorial material. In Kengo Kuma's project the Alcantara wave, with its changing spirals in constant movement, will become the emblem of the action of the opera and a true all-encompassing work of art.



Museo Gaetano Filangieri

The designer Claudia Campone returns to EDIT Napoli, who with her creative studio THiRTYONE Design + Management and with the collaboration of Paolo Milani, Francesca Borghi and Benedetta Fazzolari, will create an installation inside the Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum, entitled Neuro- philia, an investigation into the concepts of truth and plausibility applied to the connections between the brain, neurological tissues and digital technologies, in dialogue with the world of weavings and plant fibres.

Finally, Incalmi will return in a new guise to EDIT Napoli, which presents Galateo Ancestrale, a research project developed together with the artist Caterina Roppo, a textile dialogue inspired by the theme of breathing in the hypogeum of the Church of Santa Maria of the Souls of Purgatory in Arco. The works, which find inspiration in the free gesture of breathing, are the latest evolution of an in-depth study on textiles that the artist developed step by step thanks to Incalmi's skills. A three-dimensional investigation that sees the textures of the fabric fixed, thanks to the use of metal.