 In 1983 his interestin the cinema and theater led to an encounter with the film director Mario Martone, who put him in touch with the Idra Duarte gallery in Naples, an experimental space run by artists where Corte and Nurcis organized a double solo exhibition in 1986.They received the attention of the art critics Enrico Crispolti and Filiberto Menna, who invited them to exhibit at the 1986 Rome Quadriennale.The Quadriennale aimed to take stock of the Italian visual art in the mid-1980s and included such artists as Francesco Clemente, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone, Mimmo Paladino, Mario Merz.