The Gallerie d’Italia in Naples is hosting, from April 3 to July 5, 2026, the exhibition Vortici. Alexi Worth in Dialogue with Ceramics, curated by Silvia Gaspardo Moro and Richard Neer. The project proposes an unprecedented comparison between Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection and contemporary works by American artist Alexi Worth.
For the first time exhibited in Italy, Worth presents nine paintings that dialogue with a selection of archaeological finds: three craters and ahydria from the Caputi Collection, an important 19th-century collection now part of the banking group’s assets. The works were chosen by Richard Neer, professor of art history at the University of Chicago, as part of a journey through different eras focusing on the theme of the symposium and gestures related to drinking.
Alexi Worth’s painting is characterized by images “made by the mind and hands,” in which everyday objects are reinterpreted in enigmatic ways. Wine glasses, hands and leaves appear in her most recent works, rendered through essential surfaces and slightly altered viewpoints. The result is a sober but intense visual language that aims to restore to figuration a contemplative dimension typical of abstraction.
In the dialogue with ancient ceramics, these elements find new resonances: the Greek vases, linked to the rituality of the symposium, thus meet a contemporary sensibility that reflects on the same gestures and objects, creating a bridge between past and present based on the continuity of human forms and experiences.
Alexi Worth (New York, 1968) is a New York-based artist whose work explores what it means, in our hyper-saturated digital environment, for images to be “created by the mind and made by hand.” In his distinctive, precise and concise style, Worth offers enigmatic, reinvented versions of common objects, including wine glasses, doors, hands and leaves. With surfaces and observed from unusual vantage points, Worth’s art differs from much recent figuration in its essentiality and simplicity, suggesting an attempt to restore the contemplative power of abstraction to figurative art.
Worth has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts, and is represented by the DC Moore Gallery in New York. In addition to painting, Worth is a noted art critic, and has reviewed exhibitions for The New Yorker, Artforum, T magazine, Art in America, ARTnews and other magazines. He has written texts for catalogs of artists such as Jasper Johns, Carroll Dunham, Jackie Saccoccio, and Jim Nutt.
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| At Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Alexi Worth's works dialogue with Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics |
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