Antonio Biasiucci at the Reggia di Caserta: more than 300 photographs and installations

From May 31 to Nov. 30, 2026, the Grand Gallery of the Reggia di Caserta hosts Archetypes, an extensive exhibition dedicated to Antonio Biasiucci, among the most significant figures in contemporary Italian photography. Curated by Tiziana Maffei, with organization by Valeria Di Fratta and Paola Servillo, the exhibition is organized by the Reggia di Caserta Museum in collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia and Opera Laboratori. The project is part of the program through which the Ministry of Culture institute promotes photography as a tool for knowledge, reflection and formation of the gaze.

With more than 300 photographs and installations, the exhibition offers a path that investigates the relationship between human beings, nature and memory. Through his visual language, Biasiucci transforms elements of the everyday and fragments of the past into images capable of taking on a symbolic and universal value.

Central to the exhibition is photography’s ability to be a means of signification. In the rooms of the Grand Gallery, a long creative itinerary built over the years, made up of revelations, transformations and symbolic stratifications, is retraced. The subjects that populate Biasiucci’s works, such as bread, milk, volcanoes, rituals, faith, animals, are rooted in the culture of Campania, but are progressively elevated to archetypal images, capable of speaking to any time and any place.

Indeed, the artist develops a quest that tends toward essentiality, freeing objects from their most immediate references to transfigure them into transcultural, timeless and atopic foundations. In this process, bread is transformed into a kind of meteorite, mozzarella recalls the immensity of the cosmos, the volcano becomes a metaphor for creation, and the death of an animal takes on the contours of myth.

The exhibition begins in the Palatine Chapel of the Royal Palace, where twenty-seven photographs dedicated to ex votos dialogue with the monumental architecture of the space. The objects donated by the faithful emerge as enigmatic and suspended presences, giving rise to a narrative with a strong autobiographical character, rich in suggestions and symbolic references.

The exhibition then develops through twenty-four thematic nuclei, articulated in single images, polyptychs and installations. Prominent among these is Molti (Many), a work inspired by facial casts preserved in the Museum of Anthropology in Naples and made in the 1930s by anthropologist Lidio Cipriani in North Africa. In the Grand Gallery installation, the theme of identity and memory is reflected upon, recalling the tragedy of migrants who disappeared at sea and the reduction of their existences to mere numbers.

Thanks to a recent acquisition by the Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, the famous Magma series, made between 1987 and 1995 in collaboration with the Vesuvius Observatory, also enters the itinerary. The project, born from the observation of Vesuvius, represents a fundamental stage in the artist’s research, orienting it toward primordial and universal forms related to human history. Another important addition to the Reggia’s collections is Corpo Latteo, acquired thanks to the Art Bonus. Composed of sixteen photographs, the work explores milk as a symbol of birth, life and origin. The images evoke both the vastness of space and the intimacy of gestation, bringing cosmic distance and human dimension into dialogue.

The exhibition also dedicates a special space to the Royal Site of San Leucio on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Colony. Through images of looms, machinery and tools of the silk tradition, Biasiucci restores a poetic vision of the industrial memory of the place, bringing out the traces of a community and identity that are still alive.

Finally, accompanying the exhibition is the monograph Archetypes, published by Allemandi and dedicated to Antonio Biasiucci’s artistic and human journey.

Hours: Daily from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Tickets: The exhibition is part of the museum tour of the Royal Apartments. Full: Park + royal apartments 18 euros; Reduced: Park + royal apartments: 2 euros. Royal Apartments: 12 euros. Evening Royal Apartments: 5 euros. Free for visitors under 18 and those entitled to concessions. The Park-only ticket will remain unchanged at 9 euros and will not allow a visit to the exhibition. Should Park-only ticket holders wish to visit the exhibition, they will have to purchase ex novo the full ticket at 18 euros.

Antonio Biasiucci at the Reggia di Caserta: more than 300 photographs and installations

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