{"id":17838,"date":"2014-06-04T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/2014\/06\/04\/mario-spada-just-ahead-of-hell\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:01:23","slug":"mario-spada-just-ahead-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/2014\/06\/04\/mario-spada-just-ahead-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Spada: “Just ahead of hell.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Only in Front of Hell<\/em>” is the title of Mario Spada’s exhibition<\/a> held in Milan from 05\/14\/2014 to 06\/14\/2014.
\nShots of hell’s rounds from a freelancer who rides around on his historic Vespa<\/strong> in a red jersey special, the one dedicated to theanti-mafia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Subjects are Casal di Principe villas<\/strong>, seized decades earlier from Camorra bosses, abandoned to decay and often burned and destroyed by the same old owners. Photos of popular cementing<\/strong>, luxurious villas built with collusion to the state, scenes of neglect and decay<\/strong>.
\nMario Spada reveals human tragedies with an objective, noncritical gaze that lays bare people and characters, places and settings.<\/p>\n

Gomorrah on set<\/h4>\n

Among his best-known works are the set photos taken on the set of the film Gomorrah <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by
\n Matteo Garrone<\/a>
\n<\/strong>, in Scampia<\/a>, Naples.
\nThe missing link between the novel by
\n Roberto Saviano<\/em> <\/strong>
\n<\/a>and Matteo Garrone<\/em>‘s film, in a wasteland that besieges Naples and Campania.
\nCharacters who roam among illicit trafficking, rotten dioxin fields and the bloody squalor of Scampia.<\/p>\n

65 photographs that were part of the exhibition “
\n Gomorrah on set<\/em>
\n<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

“Ground zero of mob cinema”-as the New Yorker <\/em> wrote-which erases all rhetoric and complacency about criminal figures.<\/p>\n

For Roberto Saviano<\/em>, the work of his old partner in forays into alleys and sails appears to be a revolution: “No division between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, good and bad, no room for the dichotomies dear to the Western world.”<\/p>\n

Visit Mario Spada’s site made by Neikos<\/h4>\n

www.mariospada.it<\/a><\/p>\n

Biography of Mario Spada<\/h4>\n

He began photography as a wedding assistant in Naples, where he lives and works.
\nHis resume includes collaboration with theContrasto agency<\/strong>, numerous exhibitions, solo and group, in Italy as well as in New York<\/strong>, and the founding, in 2006, of LA.NA<\/strong>., a Neapolitan laboratory and cultural association that quickly established itself in the city as the first independent production and demonstration space.<\/p>\n

But also the achievement of numerous international awards<\/strong>: among others, in 1999 and 2001, he was awarded at the Savignano festival for the Portfolio in the Square event; in 2001, he won ex aequo the Canon young photographers award, in the best portfolio section; and in 2007, he was awarded the best cover of the year for the
\n Express<\/em>
\n<\/a> with a portrait of the writer Roberto Saviano.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario Spada reveals human tragedies. Characters wandering through illicit trafficking, Mafia bosses and their abandoned mansions, the blood-soaked squalor of Scampia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[418,567,566,568,496],"class_list":["post-17838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-design-en","tag-exhibition","tag-mario-spada-en","tag-milan","tag-website-restyling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neikos.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}