480 site specific

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Luca Piciocchi and Gabriella Pascale were among the first people in Naples to create one-evening events and art installations in the rooms of their homes: Luigi Battisti’s ‘Paesaggio napoletano’ June 1999; Paolo Berardinelli’s ‘Aphrodite Flowers Cocktail’, June 2000; and Luigi Battisti’s ‘Festa’ in May 2003.
They have also staged various acoustic concerts and choral performances over the years.
In 2009 they collaborated on Sem/senza, an installation by Luigi Battisti and Pasquale Polidori, presented first in Rome and then at PAN in Naples. Luca contributed the texts and Gabriella composed the music interpreting the words of the Brazilian Sem Terra workers’ movement.
In July 2021, they embarked on a new project with Francesca Fogliano and Lorenzo Piciocchi. After moving to 480 Via Tasso, they set up the cultural association “480 Site Specific”, with the aim of repurposing their previous experiences in new happenings and putting the rooms of their own home to use, each time removing the permanent works and replacing them with works and installations made to measure for their dwelling space.
Artists are invited to create new projects, in which they draw inspiration from the domestic environment and interact with the history and spaces of the house.
The intention is not only to exhibit the works in a domestic setting, but also to create a different kind of interaction between attendees/spectators and the artists, free of the bounds of convention or formality but with the warmth and grace of a welcome, where hospitality is enhanced and manifested by art through the harmonious and fleeting energy of an evening event.