Contemporary artists on display at Pistoletto Foundation among video, sculpture, drawing and painting

Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto presents as part of the twenty-fourth edition of Arte al centro, a review of exhibitions, meetings and seminars that recount artistic practices of transformation of the social contexts in which they develop, the group exhibition Quattro pezzi (non tanto) facili, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and in collaboration with Woolbridge Gallery.

Four artists belonging to the most recent generations (Filippo Berta, Massimo De Caria, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia and Daniele Innamorato) open a confrontation between different artistic procedures. Video, sculpture, drawing and painting coexist in a common space.

The initiative stems from a choice by Michelangelo Pistoletto, among the participants in the group exhibition Zona Bianca Zero, opening in November 2021 at the Woolbridge Gallery, a large former industrial space turned art gallery. Pistoletto decided to host four of the other artists participating in the exhibition at his choice and proposed this other exhibition opportunity at his Foundation.

Massimo De Caria proposes sculptures reduced to minimal plastic relief, almost vibrating sensors, or works that are slightly more structured but play on the combination of materials such as glass, water and metals that create chemical reactions capable of changing the appearance of the whole. Daniele Innamorato, who is also a photographer and graphic designer, adopts impetuous painting, best expressed on large dimensions, with which he creates spectacular body-to-body with matter (oil or acrylic or other) and with the vitality of color. Filippo Berta, with his video Gente comune (Common People) and the photos, drawings and sculptures related to it, confronts us with the despotic and oppressive aspect of the globalized world, between divisions and inequalities. It does so, however, with a poetic charge so intense that it becomes liberating. Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia are able to combine a technical skill in rendering the tiny pieces of reality of their minute drawings with a great inventiveness in attributing metaphorical values and profound meanings to the plastic materials with which they make sculptures and installations.

Image: Massimo De Caria, The Three Ages

Contemporary artists on display at Pistoletto Foundation among video, sculpture, drawing and painting

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