Ettore Spalletti
16 May - 12 Jul 2013
ETTORE SPALLETTI
La beauté est là où l’œil se pose
16 May - 12 July 2013
The title of this exhibition, “La beauté est là où se pose le regard”, was inspired by Hume's 18th century transcription of an ancient proverb that says “Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them”. This is a recurrent theme in the philosophy of art, but one that takes on a new dimension in Spalletti’s work.
Ettore Spalletti is a minimalist and meditative artist, who has created a body of work where light plays poetically on subtly coloured surfaces, evoking a very personal story. He has never left his native Pescara, on the shores of the Adriatic, and the landscapes of this region are often to be seen in his work, represented by a simple ridge line. The surfaces of the paintings and their volumes, their edges and their corners are lovingly fashioned, polished and buffed to produce a very particular luminosity. These are more than simply paintings or sculptures; Spalletti’s works create sensitive spaces that change the perception of the spectator.
Ettore Spalletti was born in 1940 and is a companion of the artists of the Arte Povera movement. Where Kounellis, Merz and Anselmo used basic and “humble” materials, Spalletti reduces shapes to their essential components, and enhances colours by giving them both a tactile and metaphysical dimension.
The exhibition in Paris has been designed by the artist specifically for the gallery and will not be revealed until all the works are in situ.
Ettore Spalletti has only rarely been shown in France since his exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1991. However, the MADRE in Naples, the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds, the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Kurhaus Museum in Cleves have organised important exhibitions of his work in recent years.
La beauté est là où l’œil se pose
16 May - 12 July 2013
The title of this exhibition, “La beauté est là où se pose le regard”, was inspired by Hume's 18th century transcription of an ancient proverb that says “Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them”. This is a recurrent theme in the philosophy of art, but one that takes on a new dimension in Spalletti’s work.
Ettore Spalletti is a minimalist and meditative artist, who has created a body of work where light plays poetically on subtly coloured surfaces, evoking a very personal story. He has never left his native Pescara, on the shores of the Adriatic, and the landscapes of this region are often to be seen in his work, represented by a simple ridge line. The surfaces of the paintings and their volumes, their edges and their corners are lovingly fashioned, polished and buffed to produce a very particular luminosity. These are more than simply paintings or sculptures; Spalletti’s works create sensitive spaces that change the perception of the spectator.
Ettore Spalletti was born in 1940 and is a companion of the artists of the Arte Povera movement. Where Kounellis, Merz and Anselmo used basic and “humble” materials, Spalletti reduces shapes to their essential components, and enhances colours by giving them both a tactile and metaphysical dimension.
The exhibition in Paris has been designed by the artist specifically for the gallery and will not be revealed until all the works are in situ.
Ettore Spalletti has only rarely been shown in France since his exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1991. However, the MADRE in Naples, the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds, the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Kurhaus Museum in Cleves have organised important exhibitions of his work in recent years.