SILENZIO NAPOLETANO

I searched for beauty when

it seemed not to exist.

I sought silence

when it felt lost to me.

NAPOLITAN SILENCE by SERGIO SIANO

June 25 – July 31

Opening: Wednesday, June 25, at 6:00 PM

Closing: Thursday, July 31, at 6:30 PM

Speech by the artist, Sergio Siano, followed by a light refreshment for guests.

Naples is often portrayed through its noise, yet there exists another Naples — invisible and powerful — that lives in silence.

It is to this hidden, intimate city that Napolitan Silence, the photographic exhibition by Sergio Siano, pays tribute. Hosted in the spaces of Hotel de Bonart Naples, Curio Collection by Hilton, Napolitan Silence is not just a collection of photographs; it is an emotional journey — a visual path that reveals the city’s secret voice. Through his lens, Siano captures both well-known and hidden places, offering us a Naples that only reveals itself to those who dare to truly listen to the silence.

BIO – Sergio Siano

Sergio Siano (Naples, 1969) is a photographer and photojournalist, author of numerous publications. The son of an artist, he began taking photographs at the age of 16, focusing his early work on his surroundings. The life of the youth in the Spanish Quarters, where he was born and raised, continues to echo through even his most mature works. His portraits of El Pibe de Oro reveal a private, more human side of Maradona, far from the spotlight. Similarly, in the Napolitan Silences series, Siano explores the theme of space and its shifting meanings as it fills and empties. His work has been published by Mondadori, Intra Moenia, Roberto Nicolucci Editore, Rogiosi, and Langella Edizioni, among others.

BIO – Kaos48

Kaos48 is an artistic, cultural, and social movement founded in Naples in 2018 by Fabrizio Scomparin and Stefano Nasti. In December 2024, it evolved into an independent research project on Neapolitan avant-garde art, curated by Daria TDA and hosted at AreaLab35 in the Centro Direzionale of Naples. The project begins with the cross-disciplinary publication of the private archive of Lucio Amelio and embraces the idea of a “gallery of gratuity” — seeking to restore intrinsic value to artworks, freeing them from the logic of market and status. Inspired by Joseph Beuys’ idea that “everyone is an artist,” Kaos48 aims to rebuild an intergenerational dialogue within contemporary art, right inside the institutional space once claimed by the avant-garde. The name evokes the idea of destructive avant-garde and positions itself as a new hub for a responsive Neapolitan youth.