Between the everyday and the fantastic, Pietro Moretti's solo exhibition The redness of the donkey in Ortisei

The Doris Ghetta Gallery in Ortisei presents, from Aug. 6 to Sept. 10, 2022, a solo exhibition by Pietro Moretti (Rome, 1996) entitled Il rossore dell’asino, in which the artist, through a collection of watercolors and oil paintings, weaves narratives between the everyday and the fantastic, questioning theambivalence of emotions in intimate relationships, the complexity of the desire to belong, identity within masculine dynamics, and how the unexpressed resurfaces through the body revealing the lies, pains, fragilities and contradictory nature of desires. Drawing from the atmospheres of fairy tales and fables, typical comic book features and elements of the grotesque, the works presented here are united by a focus on the body. The characters that populate the imagery of Moretti’s paintings are often caught in knotted gestures: bodies that hold, entangle, suffocate, embrace, transform and touch. An expression of one’s self and psychological reality, the body is also the medium by which we relate to, dialogue with, and clash with the values and expectations of a given social context.

Interested in the materiality of different surfaces and the non-naturalistic use of colors, Moretti moves nimbly from the figurative to the non-figurative to suggest the porosity between physical and psychological states of the painted figures. The scenes portrayed give life to a familiar universe, alienating and dreamlike at the same time: a room is occupied by pigeons, between which the legs of an enormous bird stand out; a couple, holding hands, simultaneously vomit, creating a unique flow; two hands attempt to contain the braying of a donkey; a woman collapses in on herself cutting an onion, her body a diagram of intertwined gestures; teenagers, united but isolated in their gestures, float on an inflatable doll that is slowly deflating. In The Visit, Another Visit, a boy is bedridden in a hospital room, his feet supported by his mother’s, as a nurse exits the room, letting in a faint pink light for a moment. In the dilated times of the hospital, the young patient engages in a dialogue of glances with an unexpected visitor: a huge cicada has entered the room. This work reflects on illness as that which escapes the possibility of control, which disrupts the apparent stability of everyday life and yet may reveal something important about us, our lives and the society in which we live. Here as in his other works, Moretti entrusts confrontation and reflection on self and human relationships to animals, which, while they remind us of what is particularly intimate to the human, also underscore an insurmountable threshold to what is foreign to us and what we can never know.

The exhibition is part of the GARASC project with which Doris Ghetta Gallery supports emerging artists who want to experiment and test their artistic practice within the contemporary art gallery ecosystem.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Doris Ghetta Gallery.

Pictured: Pietro Moretti, Between Your Hands (2022), oil watercolor on wood panel, 60x50 cm.

Between the everyday and the fantastic, Pietro Moretti's solo exhibition The redness of the donkey in Ortisei

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