The TAPPOST association and Luigi Masecchia
TAPPOST is a non-profit association for creativity, respect for the environment and social recovery, conceived and run by the Neapolitan artist Luigi Masecchia.
Luigi Masecchia
A Neapolitan artist trained at the Istituto d’Arte Boccioni and already known in the world of advertising. His first work made of caps dates back to 2012: a canvas with 2,200 crown caps. He founded TAPPOST in 2013; in 2015 he held his first European solo exhibition in Barcelona. His awards include the Premio San Gennaro; among his best-known works is the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
His artist website: www.luigimasecchia.it.
According to the press, the artist has used over a million caps across his works; to make them he also works with young people facing social difficulties or disabilities.
A history in dates
- 2012 – first work: 2,200 crown caps on canvas
- 2013 – TAPPOST is born
- 2014 – exhibition at Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, in the prison hall (20–29 September), supported by the Ricrea consortium; free entry, visitors were asked to bring one cap. The same year the artist proposed covering a metro station with about 150,000 caps (about 95 m²)
- 2015 – first European solo show in Barcelona
- 2017 – exhibition at Hotel Mediterraneo, Naples (11 May–30 June), part of the Maggio dei Monumenti programme: portraits of Totò, on the 50th anniversary of his death, in ten works made of thousands of recycled caps
- 2020 – StarTap: a collective creative-recycling artwork dedicated to Naples, under the patronage of the City
- 2021 – collaboration with IBQMI (Cheyenne, Wyoming) on environmental initiatives
- 2022–2023 – “I LOVE NAPOLI”: a collective artwork in support of the “Piccoli Astronauti in Cardiologia” project of the Santobono Hospital
- 2024 – 25 June: TAPPOST exhibition at Villa Egle, Casoria, alongside a training event accredited by ODCEC Napoli Nord