Description
Ettore Spalletti has always worked on the boundary between architecture, painting, and sculpture, seek ing a co-penetration between these areas. In the rigor of his research the use of color becomes a way to build form via the meticulous overlapping of two dimensional planes. The range of light hues, light blue and pink, eventually also white, is a tribute to the chromatic qualities of Abruzzo, the land that this artist will always be closely attached to. Interested in the interaction between the potential of light and the perception of color, Spalletti identified the eighteenth-century chapel of Palazzo Ardinghelli (L’Aquila) as a cozy and circumscribed place, and ideal for his work. An ever-present element in art history and a fundamental theme of this artist’s research, in this context the column is as if suspended: it defines the center of space by stopping at the point where the shutter of the vault is attached. In a silent dialogue with the viewer, reminiscent of the Sacred Conversations of the Renaissance, this sculpture is the connection between the reverberation and the clarity of the walls and the spread of the natural light.