Giuseppe Iacopetta
MATERIA E TRASFORMAZIONE

Description

Giuseppe Iacopetta, who was a skilled barber and hairdresser, is obviously not an outcast but is, compared to the art system, an authentic “outsider” who cultivated his passion for sculpture as a complete self-taught, starting to model with clay and then discovering that with the more economical and ductile manipulation of papier-mâché he could achieve results of more personal expressive originality. (…) Iacopetta’s works may bring to mind the great protagonists of Fernando Botero’s paintings and sculptures, but the most pertinent reference seems to me to be that to archaic anthropomorphic vases such as the canopic jars of Etruscan Art. (from the text by Francesco Poli)

The volume was produced by the Galleria GliAcrobati, Turin.