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Fausto Melotti
Description
- Fausto Melotti
- Diavoleria
- firmato sulla base
- ottone
- cm 77,5x27x18
- Eseguito nel 1980
Provenance
Galleria Margherita, Alessandria
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
In Diavoleria è evidente lo studio continuo di Fausto Melotti per ottenere una geometria che non sia solo rappresentazione del concreto ma esprima un amore puro per la materia, attraverso un’articolazione dello spazio che segua ritmi dal sapore poetico e musicale; chi oggi si dovesse trovare ad osservare l’opera sarebbe portato ad un viaggio introspettivo, cullato dall’immagine del passato e della sua celebrazione degli elementi più puri, ma scorgendo anche una visione assolutamente lungimirante del mondo.
La semplicità delle linee e dei segni di ottone utilizzati per creare Diavoleria costituiscono forme che le donano una vena surreale e quasi ironica; il concetto che la realtà sia solo un punto di partenza per arrivare ad associazioni di immagini dal significato più profondo è condiviso da Melotti con molti artisti del periodo, come i surrealisti con Joan Mirò, nelle opere del quale si possono cogliere molte somiglianze con quelle di Melotti che derivano dalla ricerca di una astrazione mai lontana da una certa leggerezza infantile e caustica ironia.
Fausto Melotti has never succumbed to the limits imposed by reality and is one of those artists who will not be easily labelled with a specific category like sculptor or poet; in fact in his work, especially in sculpture, one can easily notice how he tried to combine as smoothly as possible what was an absolutely personal feeling with the products of the material world.
In Diavoleria, it is evident the incessant study of Fausto Melotti to reach a geometry that is not only a representation of the concrete but that expresses a pure love for the matter, through an articulation of space that follows poetic and musical rhythms; today, those who observe his artwork are led to an introspective journey, cradled by the image of the past and its celebration of the purest elements, but can also catch a glimpse of a very forward-looking vision of the world.
The simplicity of the lines and signs used to make Diavoleria create forms that confer to the work a surreal and almost ironic vein; the notion that reality is just a starting point from which one can reach image associations of the deepest meaning is shared by the artist along many other intellectuals of his time, like the Surrealist Joan Miro, whose art presents many similarities to Melotti’s works that stem from the research of an abstraction never too far away from a certain childish lightness and caustic irony.