Giuseppe Spagnulo - Inediti e Nuovi - Thu 28 May 2015 - Fri 18 September 2015

On 28/05/2015at 6:30 pm,  there will be inaugurated in the rooms of Progetto Arte Elm a show by Giuseppe Spagnulo which, as indicated by the title, will be of previously unseen and absolutely new works.

Among the works seen for the first time are various sculptures related to the large "Ruota dei Venti", 2012, one of the most characteristic forms of the artist's latest production. Another such work is "Quelli che restano", 2015, an obvious allusion to Boccioni's triptych (another of these works is the terracotta "Quelli che vanno", exhibited in Verona in December 2014): this is a group of thick slabs held together by iron ties, an extreme offshoot of the artist's less-known production. Yet other works, among which a tremendous "Capitello" in cast steel, are also completely new and seem to open a further chapter in the complex and coherent history of Spagnulo's sculpture.

The basic element is visibly that of the artist's relationship with his materials, in this case iron (another, used contemporaneously, is terracotta, but this show has made the tougher choice of exhibiting only metal works): a relationship that the artist intends to maintain at the most "original" possible level, that of meetings/collisions, of force and resistance, and of the violence that masks love. And so from these terrible "blows" on the material there emerge the embryos of forms that are nothing other than sculpture's structure, those forms from which all the others grow, and that are usually reduced to just a few minimal ones waiting to be differentiated by the artist's hand. Spagnulo, instead, stops at that basic minimal moment which, however, is anything but undifferentiated: this is the minimalism of the material rather than that of the mind.

A catalogue has been published for the exhibition, with a critical essay by Marco Meneguzzo in English and Italian.