According to Ettore Spalletti,blue is fundamentally an atmospheric color \u2014one that exists as an environmental condition all around us, as depth rather than surface. He also considers pink the color of human flesh and a color that is in continuous mutation, never stable because it is subject to the fluctuations of the human spirit and intelligence. For the artist this flesh color is not a true color, and neither does blue exist in nature. It is difficult to find blue except as an impalpable reality that is depth rather than surface.<\/p>\n
These ideas capture the essence of Spalletti \u2019s art, which is made up of shapes and colors. His visual language is articulated in a space that is volumetric and architectural, but also diaphanous and light. It is an exploration directed toward an inner color that emerges as a characteristic of this language, nurtured by the echoes of his spiritual world. Spalletti \u2019s works \u2014which includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures \u2014are given life through the breath of a chromatism steeped in the moods and light of the artist \u2019s native region, the Abruzzi. In a lengthy process that calls for the preparation of a mixture made from glue, plaster, and pigment, the artist uses sandpaper to manipulate the depth of the color until he obtains a powder, which restores to
\nthe surface the impalpable condition and atmospheric impression to which he aspires. Spalletti \u2019s pink, blues, grays, whites, greens, and yellows, freed from the heaviness of the material, define new volumes; square, rectangular, and rotund bodies, geometric figures, and shapes of objects removed from everyday reality animate the fantasy of his expressive world and remake the idea of the place in which they are located. The works in the collection of the Castello are evidence of the ways in which this attention, intrinsic to his works, redefines and reinvents the spaces they inhabit.<\/p>\n
Presenza stanza (Room Presence)<\/em>,1978,is a painting on wood panel that loses the connotations of a frontally viewed and static picture to become an architecture that moves in space. Its solitary and enigmatic vertical presence establishes a strong relationship with its surroundings, delineating the boundaries of the space in which it is located. They are animated forms that, with their sensuousness, modulate the material, volumes, and architecture. Spalletti \u2019s art is apparently solitary and silent, but whoever contemplates it is party to the noises of its private world and the discovery of its inner landscapes. They are containers of feelings and sensations, which we rediscover beneath the depth of his surfaces, under the precious substance that gleams in the outlines of his volumes.<\/p>\n Sogno Dispari (Odd Dream)<\/em>,1983,Dono (Gift)<\/em>,1991,and Muro,eco rosso azzurro (Wall,Red Blue Echo)<\/em>,2003, The surface of these works is not flat or homogeneous or impersonal, but rather animated and personalized by the private dimension of their creator. In Quartetto,rosso porpora (Quartet,Purple Red)<\/em>,1991,the pastiness of the surface effects the perception of the light, conferring a tactile dimension on the work. Light rediscovers color, a living presence, which modulates and defines a painting which is in continuous dialogue with the surrounding world.<\/p>\n The idea of shaping space in order to create new visions is also seen in individual works, such as Fonte (Fountain)<\/em>, 1986,which is the transformation of a sculpture into an urban object that redesigns the space in a non-monumental key, and Scoglio (Rock)<\/em>,1997,which is a form that opens up to a view of a seascape. The latter \u2019s elementary structure, which represents a simple cube but recovers \u201canother \u201d dimension in terms of wonder and amazement, opening up to the immense depths of the sea, reveals the artist \u2019s interest in giving voice to his own dreams and ideas and in evoking places of the spirit, territories layered in memory, which preserve a recollection of suggestive and poetic images.<\/p>\n Vaso (Vase)<\/em>,1981,summarizes Spalletti \u2019s desire to reinvent a sort of living sculpture that breathes the materiality of its colors and is animated with the personality of its creator. [GC]<\/p>\n According to Ettore Spalletti,blue is fundamentally an atmospheric color \u2014one that exists as an environmental condition all around us, as depth rather than surface. He also considers pink the color […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"collezione":[1969],"class_list":["post-101025","artista","type-artista","status-publish","hentry","collezione-castello-di-rivoli-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAnfora Bacile,Vasi (Amphora Basin,Vases)<\/em>,1982, expands three-dimensionally, distributing itself in space according to a rhythmic sequence. These sculptures abandon the form of ordinary objects to become absolute bodies whose identity resides in their chromatic presence.<\/p>\n
\nestablish a principle of asymmetry. The works exist at a distance from the wall and are directed outward, suggesting tension and instability. Staggered levels, curved edges, and subtle alterations compromise a geometric rigor to which the artist \u2019s language only apparently submits.<\/p>\n
\nIn this, which is one of the few photographic works he has made, a man (perhaps the artist)waters a geometric figure (perhaps one of his sculptures),which is thus confirmed as a precious substance, a living organism to be tended and nurtured.<\/p>\n
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