Exhibitions: the San Leucio viewpoint meets “The Cloud Travellers” by Antonio Nocera

From Thursday 15 May at 6 pm, the Monumental Complex of the Belvedere di San Leucio , in Caserta, hosts the exhibition “ I Viaggiatori delle Nuvole – homage to San Leucio ” by Maestro Antonio Nocera . Curated by Claudio Strinati , the exhibition is organised by the Passaggio a Nord Est association and the Antonio Nocera Archive , promoted by the Municipality of Caserta as part of the Comunalia exhibition, with the patronage of the Campania Region , the Metropolitan City of Naples, Anci , Rotary Club Caserta Reggia and the collaboration of Scabec .

Until September 15, 2025, in various spaces of the site declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, approximately 100 of the artist's works will be exhibited, including paintings , sculptures , canvases and installations , including large-scale ones, created over the last 30 years of activity.

This solo exhibition by Antonio Nocera explores the myth of travel as a metaphor for the path of life , revealing it in all its effectiveness and significance. The works created for this exhibition – full of suggestions and references to the path taken by the artist – lead us across seas and deserts, between dream and reality, running quickly between materials, colors and sounds.

There is the journey towards the destination, experienced as a concrete experience of physical movement in space and time, but also the journey in a symbolic sense as desire, tension of knowledge and research, and again as a drama of abandonment, exile, loss, emigration.

The exhibition itinerary is divided into three main stages – Once Upon a Time , Beyond the Nest and Beyond the Sea – and also includes a tribute to San Leucio , with a collection of 19 works conceived and created using the precious original silks of San Leucio, exhibited in the royal apartments , in dialogue with the original furnishings.

“Once upon a time” – set up in the hall of the first Filanda of the monumental complex – investigates the theme of the fable (of the myth) that arises from man's instinctive need to explain things in the world through creativity. The works of this first stage of the Travellers offer the opportunity to reflect on our era, where the frenetic rhythms that suck us in like a vortex, risk making us lose sight of our ability to imagine and dream. Also on display is the installation “ Xenia ”, made of bronze and mixed techniques on wood and plexi, which combines colors, materials and symbols synonymous with freedom and spiritual change.

In the hall of the second Filanda , instead, the works of “Oltre il nido” are exhibited – which investigate the theme of the house, symbolically represented by the nest, explored in all its emotional tones – and “Oltre il mare”, which includes the installation of Libri d'Acqua (already presented at the Venice Biennale in 2013). This work is composed of 24 painted aluminum panels (100x100 cm.), contained in a metal and Murano glass tank of 1x10x10 meters.

The exhibition itinerary ends with the works in the internal courtyard of the Monumental complex of the Belvedere di San Leucio. The installation “ Il Naufragio – Tutti in salvo ” (already presented at the Venice Biennale in 2011), made of bronze, iron, rope and Murano glass with a diameter of 400 cm and 4 bronze statues approximately two meters high: “ Crisalide ”, Gioia di Vivere ”, “ Nomade ” and “ Migrante ”, which plastically represent the travellers of the clouds.

Furthermore, on the occasion of the exhibition in San Leucio, a catalogue edited by Claudio Strinati will be published, with all the works on display, texts by Michele Ainis , Domenico Semplice (president of the Passaggio a Nord Est association), Armida Filippelli (councillor for training of the Campania region), reflections by Diego De Silva and a poem by Vincenzo Cerami written for the video of Oltre il Nido , an exhibition held at the Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, in 2010.

The Antonio Nocera exhibition at the Monumental Complex of Belvedere di San Leucio can be visited from Monday to Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm. It will be closed on Wednesday afternoons. Access to the exhibition is free.