The Ice Art Gallery is the first permanent museum at the world, produced completely in ice.
Naples, with its geographical position, is recognized in the world as the City of the sun, becomes the meeting point between artists of cold, ice sculpting is an ancient art, which has its origins in distant Russia, where the cold and ice are subjects and study materials and artistic depth. Then candid Naples to become the city of ephemeral.
At the completion of the ice gallery works a team of international sculptors headed by the Neapolitan Amelio Mazzella di Regnella, President of the Italian Association of Ice Sculptors, which boasts a decade in the field of ice sculpture, with numerous holdings in competitions and exhibitions around the world, culminating with the organization of the competition ice sculpture during the recent Winter Olympic Games in Torino 2006.
In the first year are expected to use more than three hundred tons of crystal ice, all strictly "made in Naples", the topics range from figurative to the abstract, but without renouncing to social issues, such as climate change and the melting of glaciers, or making a plunge in the past, with glaciation, or a leap into the future with other peoples of the area.
The first development focus Naples, its history and the people who made famous all over the world, then as if by magic you can admire a Pulcinella, Toto’, Eduardo, the sea of the city or a crib, all completely ice . These things do not tell that to make justice artist, but like any work of art deserves the vision direct observation of detail and accuracy of the figures.
The Ice Art Gallery will be a dynamic laboratory that will be renewed each season, continually changing the theme of the exhibition, visitors can also enjoy a cocktail during the journey, and sit on comfortable armchairs ice and appropriate will also play checkers with pawns… ice.
The hall of the Ice Art Gallery has a refreshment stands where visitors can find rest, and allow you to organize cultural events such as presentations of books, records and exhibitions of visual arts, a window on the artistic activities of Naples. |