Progetto per Ratto d – (Alfredo Pirri) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Alfredo Pirri

Size: 132 x 206 cm

Museum: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Collezione Farnesina (Rome, Italy)

Technique: Watercolour

Pirri frequently works in the fields of sculpture and installation. The themesaround which his artistic production rotates are primarily light and reference totheatre. Critic have seen in his works an emerging awareness of the dramatic natureof everyday life. It is thus in art that we must seek the possibility of findingauthentic redemption for a mankind drifting in the age of globalization towardsan increasing standardization of values and the loss of any sense of communalliving. Shown in the exhibition ‘Pax’ at the Galleria Tucci Russo, the watercolour exhibited here was one of a series of six preparatory sketches for a sculpture based on the myth of the abduction of Europa by Zeus.Animated by vertical tension, the lines form curves and volutes with a dynamicrippling of volumes. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)