Description
The monograph documents the exhibition, set up at the Gliacrobati Gallery in Turin, dedicated to Fabrizio Roccatello, an artist who works by hand with traditional means and methods dictated by the ancient knowledge of the professional restorer: “My sculptures are composed of different essences: noble woods and poor. Walnut, cherry, pear and mahogany are considered valuable essences for their grain and their compact grain; beech, chestnut, oak, poplar, pine and fir are poor because they are resinous, soft and coarse-grained”.
The works, which at first glance seem playful, at a second glance reveal and convey the anxieties that inhabit the artist. They are frankly polychrome sculptures, masterfully polished, which seem to be partly inspired by pop culture and twentieth-century design, and at the same time endowed with a symbolic visual language that brings to mind neo-surrealism, but with some touches of noir.
They are works, contraptions, which invite us to think and offer themselves to interaction both through mechanical devices – which intentionally influence the posture of those who act – and through provocative messages made of sharp nails, inquiring glances, coming from objects, dolls and amputated dolls, denouncing the deprivations imposed by current generations on those of the future.
The volume has been produced by GliAcrobati Gallery, Turin.