The space, originally designed to house a power generation plant, features a wide layout and an architectural body to be observed with the poetic angle of someone who transformed an unused building into a realized dream, a creative explosion: the Hermann Nitsch Archive/Laboratory for Contemporary Arts Museum, dedicated to the Viennese artist and the visual experimentation born in the 1960s.
An arts venue in Naples, but above all a meeting point where the continuity of past memory feeds the present understood as an evocable memorial substance, as a possible antidote, in terms of a declaration of rupture, against the insinuations of insidious consumerist conditioning.
The exhibition itinerary of this exclusive place, sensing the urgency to constantly renew itself and promote cultural deepening, features permanent sections and biennial installations (September 2010) with some new works by H. Nitsch: 45 aktion-1974, Naples, Studio Morra, 54 leraktion-1977, Naples, Studio Morra 18 malaktion-1986 Naples, Casa Morra, 96 aktion-1996 Naples, Vigna San Martino, 55 malaktion-2008 Naples, Museo Nitsch, 130 aktion-2010 Naples, Museo Nitsch. The Museum is characterized by a series of fundamental core units: the Archive; the Documentation, Research and Training Center; the Library/Media Library; the Department for Independent Experimental Cinema; the Contemporary Music Record Library (from 1940 to the present day) and the Center for Performing and Multimedia Arts.
The goal is for visitors to become protagonists and active participants of the Laboratory; the intention is to preserve historical memory by offering a series of supports and documents capable of outlining the historical-existential context of the works themselves and the artists who conceived them.
Claiming deep anthropological consistency links, the Nitsch Museum proposes itself as a space where one can reclaim the possibility to know oneself, distinguish oneself, converse about the very essence of art, its languages, its dramaturgy, its colors, its asymmetric and sharp forms of meaning.
