"Archetipi" by Antonio Biasiucci at the Reggia di Caserta

As part of the travelling exhibitions, a rich selection of photographs by the artist Antonio Biasiucci – previously exhibited at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin from June 2024 to January 2025 as part of the Arca exhibition for the “La Grande Fotografia Italiana” series – will be part of the broader retrospective that the Reggia di Caserta is dedicating to the Campania-born photographer, entitled ARCHETIPI and curated by Tiziana Maffei.

About 300 photographs by Antonio Biasiucci and installations offer a reflection on the links between humanity, nature and memory, turning elements of reality into universal archetypes.   This visual narrative is explored through the poetic gaze of this artist, one of the most original figures on the contemporary Italian scene. The exhibition is part of the programme dedicated by the Reggia di Caserta, an Independent Institute of the Ministry of Culture, to the language of photography as a tool for knowledge and the cultivation of visual awareness.

Today, Archetipi by Antonio Biasiucci aims to guide audiences into the depths of matter and memory, turning individual experience into a universal and shared human value.  The exhibition unfolds through twenty-four themes, featuring individual images, polyptychs and installations, including “Corpo latteo”, an immersive, multidimensional space offering a journey through the cosmos that revolves relentlessly, with no beginning or end.

It is enriched by site-specific installations, such as “Molti”, inspired by pictures, taken at the Museum of Anthropology in Naples, of facial casts recorded by anthropologist Lidio Cipriani in the 1930s in several North African countries. The meaning of the two monoliths in the Gran Galleria is revealed by the numbers drawn by Mimmo Paladino, which accompany Biasiucci’s photographs: migrants who have perished at sea lose their identity and become mere statistics.  “Molti” then reappears in a video projection accompanied by original music by Guglielmo Grillo.

The exhibition also offers a visceral journey into the heart of the Real Sito di San Leucio, marking the 250^th anniversary of the Colony's foundation.  The looms, metal gears and spools from the spinning mill shed their mechanical nature to become the protagonists of a suspended narrative. Biasiucci’s work focuses on the material, highlighting the faces of the women and the tools of silk production as traces of an identity that has never been lost.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a monograph dedicated to Antonio Biasiucci, published by Allemandi.