17 artworks outline the evolution of the artist who gives grace to imperfection
Until May 30th it is possible to visit “Kosmos e Kaos. L’Origine è la Meta”, a solo exhibition by Massimiliano Pelletti (Pietrasanta, 1975) at Ersel, a private Bank space, always engaged in important cultural projects, based in Milan (curated by Barbara Paci and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, in partnership with the Galleria Barbara Paci in Pietrasanta).
A solo show that tells the work, the research and the incessant curiosity that push the artist to a continuous evolution and challenge. A challenge mainly with materials: marble, onyx, limestone, alabaster.
He comes from Pietrasanta, a milestone for sculptors, with its quarries, marble and stones and fascinating artisan workshops. And from these places since his childhood, inside the workshop of his grandfather who was a sculptor too, Massimiliano takes his first steps and approaches sculpture, starting from marble, a material since ancient times considered noble.
HIS RESEARCH IS A CHALLENGE MAINLY WITH MATERIALS: MARBLE, ONYX, LIMESTONE, ALABASTER
Driven by his nature of experimentation and discovery, he began to use unusual and different materials, characterized by deep wounds and cavities, due to the manipulation of the time and the natural course. These imperfections are for him stimuli to go beyond those limits that sculpture tends to neglect.
This is precisely the challenge, the central node of Pelletti’s research: letting nature, transformations and its geological conformations act. His works, in fact, can be defined as co-authorial: the artist’s hand and nature itself merge and cooperate together.
Massimiliano Pelletti is fascinated by what is not conventionally and aesthetically harmonious or considered attractive; he tries to overcome stereotypes using everything we could define waste. Taking up the classic models and re-proposing them with unusual materials, he gives new life to the stone and manages to make such a raw and imperfect material as a noble one. The artworks, which seem so balanced and delicate on the outside, actually reveal the power and strength of the natural creation.
In the exhibition it is possible to observe and retrace the creative and personal development of the artist who, in the last year, has also begun to experiment with new techniques, proposing innovative cuts. Moreover, combining different materials and recovering techniques of the past such as that of micromosaic.
