Montagna, Appennino

“Sleeping Beauty is the name given by the popular imagination to some mountains
in the Apennines that can be seen as the figure of a reclining woman. This image
has always been around me in my various studios. In painting it I have always been
struck by way the colour of the great mountain changes in different lights.” (DI
PIETRANTONIO, 2007, p. 7) Ettore Spalletti falls in love with his homeland
every day and his work is influenced by it every day in the study of colours, details
and relations with the surrounding space. In the work exhibited, the artist rests
the blue of the sky upon the grey of the Abruzzo peaks, abandoning himself to an
“imagination of colours” that transports him: “Colour sometimes takes me far
away, into the light, [...] somewhere different but always inside me.” (Ibid., p. 7)
The rarefied atmospheres that the artist breathes condense on his works in a dust
cloud of powdered pigments like epiphanies of light and colour. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma) Bibl: G. DI PIETRANTONIO, Ettore Spalletti. Intervista, in «MU6. Il giornale dei musei d’Abruzzo», II,
trim. n.4, L’Aquila 2007, pp. 6-7.