Canvases burn in Italy Automatic translate

In southern Italy, works of art are burned in protest. Casoria, a city of 83,000 inhabitants located just 10 kilometers from Naples, witnessed the artist and director of the Museum of Modern Art (CAM), Antonio Manfredi, mourning "an absolute lack of attention to cultural institutions", decided to burn 1,000 works.

“Given the lack of interest and the neglect of culture by officials, sooner or later, all the work will disappear later, so we decided that it would be best to burn them in protest now, which will be a challenge for the whole world and not only Italy.” Said Director Manfredi standing by the work of the French artist Severian Bourguignon.

Antonio Manfredi put a lot of effort into opening this museum, which he founded, in 2005. There are works by artists from 80 countries. Director Manfredi (born in Casoria, 1961) is himself a fairly well-known conceptual artist (painter, sculptor, photographer and video artist).

One of his works was selected and exhibited at the last edition of the world-famous Venice Biennale in 2011. But this canvas was also on fire: “this is an extreme protest and rebellion against the impossibility of cultural survival in the current socio-political conditions,” explains Antonio Manfredi.

The whole operation is illustrated with startling videos. Some artists have already agreed that their works will also be burned in the coming days. The museum’s protest, according to the museum’s director, has already spread throughout Europe: a number of famous artists are ready to support the action because they “live on the same problems, that is, they are indifferent to the culture whose support has been nullified due to the economic crisis”.