On the occasion of the exhibition "Riccardo Dalisi. Radicalmente", Maxxi commissioned to Vincenzo Castella a field work, searching for the places in Naples where the architect, designer and artist left his traces.
Echoing the Dalisian participatory spirit, Castella involved a group of young artists (Daniele Marzorati, Davide Barberi, Edoardo Bonacina, Josefine Jyllnor) from NABA – Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, giving shape to a mosaic of images in which the eye of the individual it is diluted in the collective work. The same thing happens with Dalisi's urban installations, which include sculptures, lampshades, masks, decorations, street furniture and small architecture. Visible or hidden, large or small, they have in fact become part of the incessant stratification that gives shape to the city, confusing themselves with noble and popular, spontaneous and planned, ephemeral and permanent signs.
Like a large open book, this metropolitan "investigation" leads the visitor to the tinsmith shops of Rua Catalana, where Dalisi had his studio and produced his works; in the streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli, crowned with small angular sculptures; among the "sentry boxes" built in Palazzo Reale; in the Rione Sanità, between the Basilica of Santa Maria and the Orange Garden; in the buildings built in Ponticelli and finally in the Rione Traiano, which in the seventies was the stage for pioneering workshops carried out with children.