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Shiwa Shiwa by Kengo Kuma for Alcantara

Teatro San Carlo, Via San Carlo 98/F

11 October - 13 October 2024 
10.30 AM - 6.00 PM
Sunday 10.30 AM - 3.00 PM
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For the EDIT Napoli public, the curtain will rise at the Teatro San Carlo to reveal the sets designed for Giuseppe Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” by architect Kengo Kuma, for Alcantara.
Kuma has chosen to entitle his creation “Shiwa Shiwa”, meaning crease-furrow, describing a Japanese concept relative to the curvilinear development found in nature, and its elusiveness. A vision which Alcantara has identified to perfection in its choice of a material that is both highly innovative and sensory. With its mutable vaultings, perpetually in motion, Kengo Kuma’s design for the Alcantara wave will become the emblem of the action of the opera and a totalising artwork in its own right.