“The Sculpture Show” the collective dedicated to sculpture in Pietrasanta

Bruno Walpoth, Meret 3 (det. 5), 2022, walnut, 47x38x25 cm

The Pietrasanta Gallery Access hosts the collective exhibition dedicated to sculpture with four figurative sculptors from 26 June to 7 August 2022

PIETRASANTA – The exhibition that the Access to the Pietrasanta Gallery proposes for the summer season 2022: they are indeed four figurative sculptors protagonists of the collective “The Sculpture Show”exposed from 26 June to 7 August 2022.

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, Alex Rane, Kelly Robert and Bruno Walpoth present a nucleus of about ten works of medium and large dimensions, in bronze, marble, earthenware, wood and sand, made specifically for the exhibition starting from the invitation of the same gallery to create sculptures that would distance them from their “comfort zone” to give birth to unusual pieces and innovative.

The drive to move into new territories has been interpreted by each artist in different ways: those who have revolutionized their subjects, those who have experimented with materials, those with dimensions.

For example, the German artist worked on large measures Peter Simon Mühlhäußer which on display presents three sculptures including two corrugated bronze casts and a sand work, the largest ever created by the artist.
In the new sculptures, however, we also find some fixed points of his style: the need to tell a story through them or to reflect on a topical theme, or to sometimes focus on the pure aesthetic harmony of forms by experimenting with new materials so that they always result functional to the message that the work intends to convey.

The element of novelty in the works of the New Yorker Alex Rane it is represented by the unusual positions that he made his figures assume for this occasion. One of the two marble sculptures is unusually seated, almost compressed into itself, and is flanked by a standing sculpture which thus stands out in an exaggerated way. After all, Rane has always investigated gestures with his work, expressing his personal vision of spirituality through it.

For the first time in his artistic career Kelly Robert gives life to a subject with masculine features. As in her female sculptures, here too the Californian artist exasperates forms and postures to express energy and power: sinuous profiles alternate with sudden edges that guide the observer’s gaze along the silhouette of the shapes she created.

The color, often lively, supports the message of strength and vitality that Robert intends to launch with his work.

The sculptor from Trentino reinvents himself in the materials Bruno Walpoth who exhibits two sculptures in Pietrasanta, one of which is life-size, which juxtaposes the wood, his material of choice, with Chinese paper.
As in the work of the other authors present in the exhibition, also in Walpoth the element of novelty is accompanied by a continuity in poetics and style: in the works on display we find that characteristic introspection and psychological distance for which Walpoth’s figures are already known and loved by the public.

Accompany the exhibition a catalog, with images of the works on display and updated bio-bibliographic apparatuses.

Timetables: Monday to Thursday 6pm – 11pm; Friday and Saturday 10:30 – 12, 18 – 24; Sunday 10:30 – 12, 18 – 23.
Free admission

“The Sculpture Show” the collective dedicated to sculpture in Pietrasanta