Created in 2024 to celebrate Mulino Caputo’s 100th anniversary, the Caputo Prize represents a corporate patronage project designed to support a new generation of artistic talents. Targeted at the students of Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, the Caputo Prize invited young artists to explore the connection between art and food, culminating in a contemporary art exhibition first presented at the Historical Archives of the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, in the fall of 2024.

On the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of Naples, the works of art created by the students evoke the aesthetics and poetics of a collective cuisine deeply rooted in the city’s working-class neighborhoods. Curated by Prof. Olga Scotto di Vettimo and prof. Arcangela Di Lorenzo