I Segni dei Tempi. Carlo Maria Mariani a Capodimonte

I Segni dei Tempi. Carlo Maria Mariani a Capodimonte, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2026

First edition
Edition of 1,000 copies
Hardcover, 24 × 30 cm, 80 pages
French edition
ISBN: 978-2-488446-31-0

I Segni dei Tempi. Carlo Maria Mariani a Capodimonte is the catalogue accompanying the monographic exhibition devoted to Carlo Maria Mariani, on view at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, from 16 April to 14 July 2026. Curated by Antonio Martino and Andrea Viliani, the exhibition marks the donation of the painting I Segni dei Tempi (The Signs of the Times, 2019) to the Museo di Capodimonte by the Carlo Maria Mariani and Carol Lane Mariani Foundation of New York.

The Italian painter Carlo Maria Mariani (1931–2021) was an internationally acclaimed artist whose works have been featured in numerous major exhibitions worldwide, including at documenta in Kassel, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Rome, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, the Venice Biennale, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., among many others.

A physician by profession, Antonio Martino is an Italian art collector. Through his collection and public engagement initiatives, he is committed to making art accessible to wider audiences. His work also explores the relationship between art and well-being within the field of medicine.

Domenico Nardone is an Italian art critic, theorist, and curator, and a leading figure in the experimental artistic research of the 1970s and 1980s. Closely associated with the Centro Studi Jartrakor in Rome, he contributed to the development of Eventualism. In 1984, he co-founded the Gruppo di Piombino, which explored the relationship between art, everyday life, and participation. As founder of the Galleria Alice in Rome, Nardone developed a committed critical discourse in support of relational art.

Francesca Sborgi is an Italian art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is a curator and Head of Cultural Mediation at the Gallerie degli Uffizi.

Eike Schmidt is a German-Italian art historian and museum director. He has held positions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence from 2015 to 2024, he has served as Director of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples since 2024.

Andrea Viliani is an Italian art historian specializing in contemporary art, curator, and cultural institution director. He served as Director of the Museo Madre in Naples from 2013 to 2019 and has coordinated the CRRI – Centro di Ricerca del Castello di Rivoli since 2019.