La casa del silenzio imperfetto

Curated by Maurizio Barberis and Patrizia Catalano

Pinacoteca Provinciale - Palazzo Pinto

In collaboration with

 Confindustria Salerno, Assessorato alla Cultura, Provincia di Salerno, Comune di Salerno,

Camera di Commercio di Salerno, Regione Campania

On the occasion of Salerno Design Week 2025 — and in collaboration with Confindustria Salerno's Design/Textile/Home System Group — HoperAperta, a platform that combines art, architecture, and design, now in its seventh edition, presents the exhibition “La casa del silenzio imperfetto” (The House of Imperfect Silence).

Through a series of exhibition fragments, La Casa del Silenzio Imperfetto aims to develop a journey through the art of living, placing at the center of a virtual mandala, made up of objects, works, and architecture, a figure that in contemporary society has accompanied, and sometimes surpassed, the two personalities of the museum curator and the artist, testifying to a passion that often borders on a voluptuous desire for infinity. The exhibition therefore owes its definition to the collector's quest to build a world that never ends and which, like the work of an author, lives in an ever-incomplete universe.

A series of manifestations for the soul of the house, each associated with a time, a function, a material, the spirit of a dwelling, such as: La Maison que j'habite, Six Rooms for a House of Imperfect Silence, From Hieronimus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, Seven Easy Pieces.

The authors: Mark Anderson, Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno e Alberto Torres, Dorian X, Alfonso Femia, Cristina Fiorenza, Duccio Grassi, Francesca Grassi, Gianfranco Marabese, Ugo Marano, Federica Marangoni, Daniele Menichini e Nicolas Turchi, Aldo Parisotto, Maurizio Peregalli, Steve Piccolo, Giulio Rigoni, Claudia Rogge, Federico Spagnulo, Davide Valoppi, Alberto Vannetti, Carmelo Zappulla.

The works on display were created thanks to the contribution of the companies belonging to the Design Group of Confindustria Salerno and, in particular, the following companies: AR.CE.A, Cianciullo Marmi, Fornace De Martino, Hebanon fratelli Basile- 1830, Lamberti Design, MT Plex, Rinaldi Group, Saggese, Tekla, and Antonangeli, Julia Marmi, Q Lighting, Grassi Pietre, Zeus, and companies that represent excellence in the processing and finishing of materials such as wood, metal, stone, ceramics, marble, and lighting, and that work with a sustainable approach to enhancing the environment in which they operate.

HoperAperta also collaborated with CE Contemporary, Galleria Mazzoleni, Galleria Paola Verrengia, and Galleria Schubert.

The set up is by Tremil.

The exhibition is part of the Salerno Design Week 2025 program, curated by Giovanna Basile, President of the Design/Textile/Home System Group, and Stefania Rinaldi, Vice President with responsibility for Made in Italy, of Confindustria Salerno, with the scientific support of Prof. Vittoria Marino.