Napoli Super Modern
Everyone seems ‘to know’ Naples, even those who have never been there: its setting, its sounds, its people, its tastes, its informality and, not least, its stories, shaped by the fervor with which the inhabitants live this city.
In the exhibition “Napoli Super Modern”, the Paris studio of architects LAN (Benoit Jallon and Umberto Napolitano), together with photographer Cyrille Weiner, draw attention to a series of buildings from the period 1930-1960. A period in which Italian architecture was marked by fascism and post-war reconstruction, but which in Naples also brought forth a strongly contextualised form of modernism. Moreover, the city, its inhabitants and their coexistence are portrayed in the exhibition through the media of documentary and film. Bêka & Lemoine record an urban journey through Naples, from the Lungomare to the steep alleys up to Vesuvius. As numerous as the narratives of Naples are reproduced in literature, music or film, countless stories of epochs, styles and customs also overlap in the city’s architecture. To avoid getting carried away by stereotypes, guides are needed to decipher this pleasing cacophony.
Tue – Wed, Fri 11am – 6pm
Thu 11am – 8:30pm
Sat – Sun 11am – 5pm
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S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Steinenberg 7, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
ESTABLISHED
1984
