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Ettore Spalletti
One of the most important summertime events for environmental art in Italy returns to Grazia and Gianni Bolongaro’s park at “località La Marrana di Montemarcello,” Ameglia (SP) |
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A long series of artists have installed their works at the park over the past summers. They include Hossein Golba (1997), Kengiro Azuma (1998), Luigi Mainolfi (1999), Philip Rantzer (2000), Mario Airò and vedovamazzei (2001), Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (2003), Joseph Kosuth and Jannis Kounellis (2004), Jan Fabre and Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini (2005).
The featured artist this year is Ettore Spalletti, with his Fountain in the Grazia and Gianni’s Garden.
Spalletti’s work has been internationally recognized as one of the most original contributions to art after Arte Povera that does not participate in Postmodernism. In his work, painting, sculpture, and environmental installation meet somewhere between reality and abstraction, figurative representation and formal rarefaction.
During his career, Spalletti has exhibited around the world, always enjoying as much success amongst specialists and critics as amongst the public at large. This reflects the acutely sensitive stimulus provoked by his work in the eyes and hearts of observers. His one-man show at the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds was listed as one of the best in 2005 by the United States magazine Artforum. One-man shows have been dedicated to him by prestigious institutions like the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, the Musée de Strasbourg, SMAK in Ghent, and MUHKA in Antwerp, the South London Gallery in London, the Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, the Kunstverein in Munich, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and Villa Medici in Rome.
His installation at La Marrana offers a résumé of his poetics. First and foremost, it represents the creation of a place in the park, a place where a voice is given to his unique shade of blue (Giacinto Di Pietrantonio writes, “he has enabled us to see the blue atmosphere of a society where this color was and is increasingly muted by the grey of smog”).
His construction is composed of geometry and elements of poetry, the white of forms and the blue of water that, enclosed in a large cylinder, creates an
absolute space for the four small, black Belgian marble houses defining its surface.
Di Pietrantonio observes that “the work Spalletti has designed and installed in Mr. and Mrs. Bolongaro’s park at La Marrana consists of a fountain. As is often the case in his work, it contains small variations of a matrix that the artist has been using for several years, since he begins with several generating geometric forms like the cone, the sphere, the cube, and the cylinder. The same is true for materials like wood, pigment, granite, stone, and marble. In this case, the conical form, or better the section of a cone and the marble predominate, creating a small fountain where the water spurts out softly at the top, where you find small stylized marble houses. This is a form, image, and function used on various occasions, for example at Projekte Sculpture Münster or the Salle des Départs at the Raymond-Poincaré Hospital in Garches, symbolizing the fountain of life, just as he did here at La Marrana, because it is made to be used both by men and animals, to provide drink both to us and to birds.”
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| From date July 01 To date July 30 |
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