| Project Id |
3337 |
| Project Name |
Casa Morra - Archivio d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy |
| Description |
Casa Morra is a new space created in Naples by Giuseppe Morra at Palazzo Ayerbo D'Aragona Cassano, a complex covering an area of 4,200 m2 that will gradually be refurbished to accommodate the vast Morra collection of over 2,000 works presented along routes dedicated to specific themes and artists. A journey through the history of contemporary art and fundamental movements such as Gutai, Happening, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, Living Theatre, Visual Poetry, and the most advanced Italian and foreign research. In this way, this Neapolitan patron of the arts’ great adventure continues through time. Casa Morra is clearly not a static space for the exhibition of works but an archive of contemporary art, a dynamic place that stimulates reflection and research on society and its evolution. A “house of ideas” where the past merges into the present and the future, launching a challenge against time with a programme planned for up to 2116. |
| Description of the economic, social and environmental impacts of the project |
The driving role of the Fondazione Morra stems not only from its founding principles but also from the social and cultural growth of both informal and institutional interlocutors. A slow but effective process of shared planning drives and galvanizes the network of “creative and plural identities” living in the administrative area known as the Second Avvocata - Montecalvario - Port Municipality. A proposal to reappropriate places, valorizing the “stories” of the territory and its social, cultural, and economic progress brings to light the issue of the potential of cultural enterprise. Casa Morra is an important component in Fondazione Morra’s ‘vision project’, the flagship project of the preparatory phase of the ‘Strategic project of the City of Naples’, drawn up for PIU Europa, Il Quartiere dell'Arte, a district that becomes a city and a city that becomes a world. Today through the varied contents of its archives, Casa Morra contributes to the Art District concept. |
| Web links |
website not provided |
| Country |
Italy |
| City size |
Metropolis (between 1 and 10 million people) |
