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.