Ettore Spalletti: Parole di colore
The project emerges from a dialogue with the architectural space and features large-scale works.
Robert Olnick Pavilion, Gallery 2Magazzino Italian Art
Featuring five works by Spalletti, the project is installed in Gallery 2, an isotropic room built as a perfect cube, in which each wall is punctured by a single square window.
Robert Olnick Pavilion, Gallery 2 detailMagazzino Italian Art
Set at different heights and positions, the windows admit shafts of light that cross through the isotropic gallery differently, hour by hour, in a space where color, light, and volume are in equilibrium.
On view through January 6, 2025
Ettore Spalletti: Parole di colore is specially conceived for Magazzino Italian Art's new pavilion by Fondazione Ettore Spalletti and Alberto Salvadori in collaboration with architect Alberto Campo Baeza.
Ettore Spalletti_Installation shot 4Magazzino Italian Art
The exhibition features 3 large monochromatic wall pieces
—Sia o no così, rosa; Così, rosa; Sia o no così, azzurro—painted in 2009 in densely layered color, ritually applied in the same manner at the same time of day.
They are juxtaposed with the sculpture "Colonna nel vuoto"
In dialogue with Campo Baeza’s isotropic gallery, the sculpture can be seen as a symbol, a possible source of reinterpretation and innovation in the relationship between art and architecture.
Ettore Spalletti Installation shot 8Magazzino Italian Art
Alongside the paintings and column
Ettore Spalletti Installation shot 2Magazzino Italian Art
is Disco, 1981, a piece created from black lacquered wood inserted into one of the walls.
Ettore Spalletti Installation shot 5Magazzino Italian Art
Disco introduces a magical and asymmetrical element to the space—a presence suggesting a sense of the sublime.
Ettore Spalletti Installation shot 1Magazzino Italian Art
Parole di colore is a reflection on Spalletti’s work in relation to the cube designed by Alberto Campo Baeza; a space that feels like a sanctuary.
As Spalletti explained, “In my work, there is always a desire to offer a space in which to feel good, in which to feel enveloped and somehow protected. The most important value for me is the gift.”
