Martyrdom · Cure · Penance · Mission
PRESS RELEASE
Exhibition organized by LaPrimAmericana in collaboration with the De Chiara De Maio Foundation and the Archconfraternity of the Pilgrims of Naples Via Portamedina alla Pignasecca, Napoli
The Most August Archconfraternity of Pilgrims announces the inauguration of the Cammini di Grazia exhibition, an exhibition itinerary that interweaves baroque art with courage and finesse, contemporary sensitivity and social vision, paying homage to the centuries-old mission of the Brotherhood: welcome, assist, accompany.
The exhibition presents works by Luca Giordano, seventeenth-century Neapolitan master, combined - in a new and surprising dialogue - with the languages of Fernando Botero and Max Coppeta, generating a triptych of views on the meaning of human fragility and spiritual redemption.
The exhibition, edited by Prof. Vincenzo De Luca, will be hosted in the Chapel of the Archconfraternity of the Pilgrims, Napoli dal 13 December to 13 January 2026.
The inaugural event will be held on Saturday 13 December 2025, at 18:00 and will include a meeting on Luca Giordano in comparison with the other works present, With one Reading the care of Stefano Sarcinelli and one Reading of the Prof. Vincenzo De Luca.
An innovative curatorial project
Cammini di Grazia was born from a curatorial idea that reinterprets four icons of the Christian tradition - San Sebastian curate, San Bartolomeo, Saint Jerome, St. Peter's — like stages of an authentic interior pilgrimage: martyrdom, as an extreme testimony; treatment, as a community gesture and redemption of the wounded body; penance and study, as an internal transformation; mission, as an assumption of spiritual and civil responsibility. The works of Luca Giordano, animated by a theatrical pathos and a saving light, find a radical counterpoint in Coppeta's suspended volumes, who with his sculptural abstraction investigates the tension between wound and healing, and in Botero's Mona Lisa, which introduces a dimension of ironic tenderness, almost an invitation not to forget grace even in the most unexpected forms. This choice, bold but profoundly coherent, it gives the viewer the complexity of a human and spiritual journey that spans the centuries and speaks to the present.
At the heart of the Brotherhood's mission
Host this exhibition in the spaces of the Archconfraternity - a welcoming place for pilgrims, sick people and travelers since the 16th century - means reuniting art with its original function: cure, elevate, accompany. In this context, Cammini di Grazia becomes more than an exhibition: it is a visual meditation on fragility, about mutual care, on the value of the community, consistent with the history and present of the Brotherhood.
The launch of the SudArs project
The exhibition also represents one of the first chapters of the SudArs project, the new digital platform dedicated to the valorisation of the cultural heritage of Southern Italy, born to connect places, institutions, artists and communities in a shared cultural network
🎨 SUDARS
SudArs: offers a cultural map of the South, promotes integrated programming between classic and contemporary, promotes collaboration between international artists and galleries, returns to the public an "exciting" South, immersive, contemporary". Cammini di Grazia perfectly embodies this philosophy: a South that dialogues with the world through art, care and beauty.
Thanks
The Most August Archconfraternity of Pilgrims expresses profound gratitude to: De Chiara De Maio Foundation, for the generous concession of Luca Giordano's works; LaprimAmericana, for enlightened support for cultural valorization; Stefano Sarcinelli, president of LaprimAmericana, for his masterful guidance and constant commitment to promoting art as a common good.
Information on the Paths of Grace
Archconfraternity of Pilgrims - Via Portamedina alla Pignasecca, Napoli. 13 December 2025 – 13 January 2026
