Farewell to Ettore Spalletti, the artist of pink and blue

Artist Ettore Spalletti, one of the most important Italian representatives ofconceptual art as well as an internationally renowned author, died today in Spoltore (province of Pescara) at the age of seventy-nine. He was born in 1940 in Cappelle sul Tavo (Pescara) and had emerged as early as the 1970s with a research hinged on colors (in particular on pink andlight blue, the real distinctive elements of his works: light blue as the color of atmosphere, pink as the color of flesh), declined in light tones through abstract, highly evocative forms. Colors that went to compose paintings, sculptures, installations.

“Spalletti,” wrote critic Demetrio Paparoni, “specifies that blue is that (changing) of the sky, pink that of the complexion, yellow that of the sun’s rays that reach us through the blue that surrounds us. The only variation Spalletti indulges in in his choice of materials is marble, polished to a mirror-like surface that seems to emanate light instead of reflecting it.”

The artist has exhibited on several occasions at the Venice Biennale (1982, 1993, 1995, 1997) and Documenta (1982, 1992), while his solo shows have been held at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Guggenheim in New York, the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, the GAM in Turin, the MAXXI in Rome (here, in 2014, his most comprehensive retrospective was held) and several other Italian and international museums. In 2017 he received an honorary degree in architecture from the Gabriele D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara.

Farewell to Ettore Spalletti, the artist of pink and blue

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