Whirlwinds: Alexi Worth in Dialogue with Ancient Ceramics

At Gallerie d'Italia - Naples an exhibition stages a conversation between contemporary painting and ancient Greek pottery. New York artist Alexi Worth presents nine airbrushed canvases executed in a restrained palette, where everyday objects (glasses, hands, doors) appear in compositions that balance figuration and abstraction.

The paintings are placed in visual dialogue with four kraters from the Caputi Collection, selected to evoke the Greek symposium — a communal ritual blending drinking and representation. In the installation the vases occupy central positions while Worth's canvases line the walls, highlighting formal affinities such as limited color range, figure-ground ambiguity, and the tension between narrative and surface.

This is the artist's first solo show in Italy. Worth's work reinterprets the ritual of communal drinking by focusing on minimal gestures — the grip of a hand, the space between face and cup — and revealing their psychological and symbolic charge.