ETTORE SPALLETTI
2022-04-18On the ground floor, the visitor will be greeted by a metaphysical landscape composed of two sculptures, which appear to be suspended in the vast space: Colonna nel vuoto, 2019 and Ellisse, 2016. “In order to conduct a discourse on the appearance of the painterly substance and on its effect of reflection and emergence. Spalletti has utterly reduced the presence of volumes, whose formalization, producing a column or a parallelepiped, a cup or a bowl,depends on an elementary geometric development, which is tied to the figures of a square and a triangle, a circle and an ellipse” (Germano Celant). Spalletti made the first column in 1978: “I had in me this desire for verticality, but also the wish for an object that had crossed the whole period of art history and could be continuously recognizable in different moments”. The ellipse is a recurring geometric figure in the artist’s work: “the relationship with art means going to the studio every day, walking around inside, looking around. Suddenly becoming aware of a colour that approaches you, trying to stop it, develop a feeling for the shapes, think of the lines of geometry: horizontal, vertical, oblique, curved. To break geometry itself,
its stiffness, to fill it with a matter that, like smoke, breaks up into subtle dust particles”.
Opposite – Veduta dello studio dell’artista, Cappelle sul Tavo, 2018
Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022
Lia Rumma Gallery
Via Stilicone, 19
20154 Milan
Italy
T +39.02
