The exhibition presents 33 new large-scale works in which the artist captures the luminous spectacle of light and color staged by the Neapolitan people around Mount Vesuvius on New Year’s Eve.

“In the year in which Neapolis celebrates its 2,500th anniversary, I imagined an exhibition capable of challenging our idea of time and the way we perceive it. I immersed the works in an incandescent red light pouring in through the large windows of the Albergo dei Poveri, as if Naples had been hurled onto a star at cosmic dawn. It is the same red as the magma chamber, where the volcano forges matter and its colors. It is the red of the darkroom, the place where the photographer attempts to fix an instant. This exhibition is born from a dialogue between different times: the time of Neapolitan civilization, the geological time of Vesuvius, and the infinitesimal time of the photographic shot.”

Mario Amura

“Napoli Explosion reveals how photography can transform a collective phenomenon into a visual meditation on light and perception. Amura’s images bring together artistic intuition, individual sensibility, and analytical rigor, restoring the luminous vitality of Naples. It is a poetic work of imagery that questions our capacity to see and the way the city itself generates forms, sublimation, emotions, and knowledge.”