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Parallel Worlds – ST-ART Strasbourg 2025

Parallel Worlds

Solo exhibition by Claudio Napoli
Curated by Lanki Jung – Harmonie Nine Gallery

Strasbourg Exhibition Park
Hall 3 – Stands 3A10 / 3A11

November 13–16, 2025

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In Claudio Napoli’s work, photography becomes an act of transformation.
With Parallel Worlds, the artist explores the possibility of constructing alternative worlds starting from fragments of the real. His language merges photography, architecture, and digital imagination in a refined balance between abstraction and materiality, between urban memory and inner vision.

Each piece originates from photographs of urban architecture — glimpses, details, and sections of buildings that define our everyday landscape.
Through a process of digital manipulation, Napoli cuts, rotates, and recomposes these elements, transforming the familiar into new visual configurations, suspended between dream and structure.

For Napoli, technology does not replace the gaze — it amplifies it.
The city becomes a perceptual laboratory where reality is deconstructed and reassembled as vision. Each image is a journey through light and form, a reflection on the metamorphosis of space.

Le Tesseract N.01

Photography and digital processing

Fine Art print on Hahnemühle paper, 40 × 40 cm

Silk Works

At Strasbourg, alongside his Fine Art prints, Claudio Napoli presents a new series of works created on Como silk twill (100% silk, 14 momme).
With its transparency and lightness, silk becomes a living part of the image: photography breaks free from the rigidity of traditional supports and takes on a fluid, tactile, almost skin-like presence.

Light, a central element in Napoli’s poetics, finds in the silk’s weave a new field of expression — it diffuses, vibrates, and glides across the surface, interacting with the material in ever-changing ways.

The fabric is prepared, printed, and hemmed in the Como silk district (Italy), using high-quality inkjet printing that enhances depth, sharpness, and chromatic precision.
The hem is machine-rolled and hand-finished at the corners, following the finest tradition of Italian silk craftsmanship.

The works, available in 90×90 cm and 140×140 cm formats, can be displayed or worn, as true art-scarves entirely made in Italy, transforming the image into a bodily and sensorial experience.

The coexistence of Fine Art prints and silk pieces creates a dialogue between density and transparency, stillness and motion — two parallel dimensions of the same visual universe.

Medium

Silk twill, 100% silk – 14 momme

High-quality inkjet print

Fabric prepared, printed, and hemmed in the Como silk district (Italy)

Machine-rolled hem, hand-finished corners

Completely Made in Italy

Le Tesseract N.02

Photography and digital processing

Fine Art print on Hahnemühle paper, 40 × 40 cm

BIO

Claudio Napoli (Naples, 1960) lives and works between New York and Rome.
Trained in graphic design and audiovisual production, he collaborated with renowned Italian directors such as Giuseppe Tornatore, Franco Zeffirelli, and Mario Monicelli as a visual effects supervisor for cinema.
With the studio Proxima, he received six consecutive nominations for the David di Donatello Awards, ( Italian OSCAR) winning in 2006 for Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido.

In 2014, he moved to New York, where he expanded his creative horizon through documentaries, video installations, and multimedia projects with an increasingly experimental and authorial approach.

A photographer by vocation, in recent years Napoli has focused on image as a space of metamorphosis, investigating the relationship between architecture, perception, and urban memory.

His works have been presented in Italy, the United States, and South Korea, in solo and group exhibitions, and at major art fairs such as The Others Art Fair (Turin, 2025), MIA Photo Fair (Milan, 2024), and Affordable Art Fair (Milan, 2020).

He has also exhibited in New York (Sidewalk Diaries, Valli Art Gallery, 2023), Seoul (Photo Show – Italfesta), and in independent galleries and spaces across Rome, Turin, and Milan.

Today, Napoli’s photography moves between observation and abstraction, between document and vision, seeking in light and urban matter a personal form of storytelling — one that balances poetic sensitivity with visual discipline.

PHOTO EXHIBITS

2025 Strasburg: ST-ART P.Worlds - Harmonie 9 Galley

2025 Torino: The Other - P.Worlds Video - Febo&Dafne Gallery

2024 Milano: MIA Photo Fair - Galleria Febo&Dafne Gallery

2023 Torino: Parallel Worrlds - Solo Show

2023 New York: Sidewalk Diaries - Valli Art Gallery

2022 Seoul: Video installation art - Wave Park

2020 Milano: Affordable Art Fair - Febo&Dafne Gallery

2019 NY: Solo Show Napoli-New York - G.Sottocasa

2019 Seoul: Photo show - Italfesta Dioartcenter.kr

2019 Milano: Sidewalk Diaries - Copernico Centrale

2019 Torino: New York Visions - Solo Show Febo&Dafne