Critical text by Alessandra Pacelli
Caria mixes pulp with irony, he links pop-art to expressionism; with a rough and syncopated strokes of Indian ink, felt-tip pens, charcoals and enamels with splashy colors. In the background a Naples lurching towards the future, always ready to explode. Open door to an unknown elsewhere?
There is always a “punctum”, Roland Barthes would say, that changes the meaning of it all: a crumpled can, a flying saucer, a sneer, the distant explosion of a volcano; small disturbing elements like detonators ready to explode.
charcoal, acrylic, newspaper clipping on paper, 95x50 cm, (2024). Photo Danilo Donzelli
His characters, all unreliable types who are part victim and part perpetrator, reveal themselves as little executioners, unravel like little incendiary novels
a triple somersault whips together Calvino, Grosz, Terry Gilliam… and turns tension into a political language
Charcoal, India ink, newspaper clipping on paper, 215x135 cm (2004). Photo by Luca Musella.
charcoal, acrylic, newspaper clipping on paper, 95x50 cm, (2024). Photo Danilo Donzelli
it appropriates it, decodes it, manipulates things with imagination and transforms this city not into a double of itself but into a counter-reality made up of signs, noises and strange games of parties and gallows.
Charcoal, India ink on paper, 23X35cm (2014). Photo Luca Musella.
EASY PIECES
Charcoal, Indian ink, acrylic on paper, small cuts (2024). Photo Danilo Donzelli.
