Visitors to Ceal Floyer’s first solo show in Italy were greeted by filing cabinets, ping-pong tables, and flickering flames. Despite the rain and recent controversies that made the idea of a dancing soirée at the museum impossible, the Pakistani-born British artist’s exhibition opened successfully at MADRE in Napoli. Curated by Mario Codognato, the show was hailed by many as the best presented at MADRE so far, with a selection of videos, installations, and sculptures meant to introduce the synthetic and hyper-realistic research of Floyer, who was awarded the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art in 2007. With works like Drill, Mousehole, Order, and Exit, the show charts a path inspired by the obvious and everyday object reproduced as a readymade.

After the opening, Codognato and MADRE director Eduardo Cicelyn welcomed guests with a light dinner buffet in the museum’s restaurant. Popular music accompanied the evening as a coterie of artistic personalities from every corner of Europe and overseas cheering Floyer as they overlooked Vesuvius. Supporters and gallerists (Lorcan O’Neill, Galleria S.A.L.E.S.’s Norberto Ruggeri, Isabel Bernheimer, and Lisson Gallery’s Silvia Sgualdini), curators, critics (Stefano Chiodi, Katell Jaffrès of Palais de Tokyo, Giorgio Verzotti, Cristiana Perrella, Patricia Pulles), and some artists (Italians Elisabetta Benassi, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Giulia Piscitelli, Luca Vitone) were all there to celebrate.

Image courtesy of Ceal Floyer and MADRE

Translation Beatrice Leanza

KEYWORDS: art, Ceal Floyer

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