Caduti

Oliviero Rainaldi’s artistic trajectory is at the same time a spiritual pathway. The
artist has always had a great interest in the reinterpretation of traditional religious
iconography in a new formal light. In order to examine the relationship between
art and liturgy in depth, he enrolled in various courses of theology and undertook
thorough study of the Bible and Christian literature. The reading of Genesis
was a stimulus for reflection and creation for the artist, who worked for six
years, until 1999, on a series of sculptures devoted to the stories of original sin, the
flood and the repentant and redeemed figures found there.
In the work from the series exhibited here, a finely stylized figure with a bowed head,
stark and smooth, devoid of physiognomic connotations, exemplifies the feelings of
repentance peculiar to the fallen. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)