Pietrasanta, all about sculpture the new exhibition at Accesso Galleria: The Sculpture Show

Entirely dedicated to sculpture is the exhibition that the Access Gallery in Pietrasanta is offering for the 2022 summer season: in fact, four figurative sculptors are featured in the group show The Sculpture Show, on display until August 7, 2022.

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, Alex Rane, Kelly Robert, and Bruno Walpoth present a nucleus of about ten medium- and large-scale works in bronze, marble, earthenware, wood, and sand, created specifically for the exhibition from the gallery’s own invitation to create sculptures that would move them away from their “comfort zone” and give birth to unusual and innovative pieces. The urge to move into new territories was interpreted by each artist in different ways: some revolutionized their subjects, some experimented on materials, some on dimensions.

For example, on large sizes worked German artist Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, who in the exhibition presents three sculptures including two casts in corrugated bronze and a work in sand, the largest ever created by the artist. In the new sculptures, however, some of the staples of his style can also be found: the need to tell a story through them or to reflect on a topical issue, or to focus sometimes on the pure aesthetic harmony of the forms while experimenting with new materials so that they are always functional to the message the work intends to convey.

The new element in New Yorker Alex Rane ’s works is the unusual positions he has made his figures assume for this occasion. One of the two marble sculptures is unusually seated, almost compressed into itself, and is flanked by a standing sculpture that is thus exaggeratedly prominent. After all, Rane has always investigated gestures with his work, expressing through them his personal vision of spirituality.

For the first time in her artistic journey, Kelly Robert brings to life a subject with male features. As in her female sculptures, here the California-based artist exaggerates shapes and postures to express energy and power: sinuous profiles alternate with sudden edges that guide the viewer’s gaze along the silhouette of the forms she creates. The color, often vibrant, goes along with the message of strength and vitality that Robert intends to launch with her work.

Reinventing himself in materials is Trentino sculptor Bruno Walpoth, who exhibits two sculptures in Pietrasanta, one of which is life-size, that juxtapose wood, his material of choice, with Chinese paper. As in the work of the other artists in the exhibition, in Walpoth the element of novelty is flanked by a continuity in poetics and style: indeed, in the works on display one finds that characteristic introspection and psychological distance for which Walpoth’s figures are already known and loved by the public.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog, with images of the works on display and up-to-date bio-bibliographical apparatus.

For all infomrations you can visit the official website of the Access Gallery.

Pictured: Bruno Walpoth, Meret 3 (det.5), 2022, walnut, 47x38x25 cm.

Pietrasanta, all about sculpture the new exhibition at Accesso Galleria: The Sculpture Show

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