After the shows dedicated to Alberto Viani and Michele Festa during the last season, Lorenzelli Arte continues with its exhibitions of great sculptures.
On Thursday, December 4th, starting at 6:30 PM, Lorenzelli Arte will be inaugurating a double exhibition of works by Pierluca and Zoltan Kemeny, indisputable leaders of European sculpture after World War II (the former born in Banica, near Florence, the latter in Transilvania), both working in Paris, although belonging to two different generations.
“Lacerazioni e Aggressioni”, instead, is the title of the exhibit dedicated to Pierluca,(rooms B and C): approximately 30 large-scale works in iron, steel, aluminium and copper: solid metal blocks split by a gigantic force, sheets welded in thick sections perforated like bombed carcasses, with violent tears in the metal mass (M. Valsecchi, Pierluca laceratore di metalli – Pierluca tearing metals, in “Il Giorno”, Milan, 27th November, 1969). This extraordinary and unfortunate artist – he died young in Malaga in 1968, victim of an accident – Pierluca created works that ignore the rhetoric of fascination and the proclivity for a facile “literary taste” but “accept the cuts, the tears and the lacerations of a knowing gesture” (C. Giacomozzi, Fogli Lacerati – (Torn Sheets), in “Vita”, Rome, December 7th, 1961). Lacerazione 38A, 38B, 38C, Grande Lacerazione (Great Laceration) of 1959 are works of great power, of great physical impact and austere elegance, a dramatic, “formal” sign of a destiny, all permeated with their personal physicality. Pierluca himself explains it in his own words: “… I bent / hard materials as if they were clay / I tamed stone, bronze and steel / I shaped thoughts, volumes and spaces / in order to “conquer” the idea” wherever it is important to emphasize nihilism beyond any suspicion: “…..truth lies in the courage / to carry out a gesture / because, all in all, /the intention is to / destroy everything in order to start all over again” (G. Marchiori, Pierluca, Alfieri Edizioni d'Arte, Venmezia 1967).
