SERGIO PALLONE

Lives and works in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

Artist statement

Definitely work of man: so these constructions and buildings declare themselves to be, appearing from undefined grasslands or seas, made tangible and believable by their geometrical perspectives, by their reference to the life they in some way host or which they have harboured and accompanied. They are pavilions bearing the solemn imprint of the “Ideal City” of Urbino, a trace of the works of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, an evocation of the paintings of the great magician Morandi; they are temples awaiting sacred ceremonies, bridges and passages over roads which vanish merging with the horizon. Bookcases awaiting books as yet unimagined and unpublished. Houses depicted in their most elementary, but not trite, rather archetypal, farms fronted by fenced courtyards which embrace, invite and protect or vegetable gardens which, in addition to producing nourishment, by means of the changes of colour that occur with the growth and blossoming of their plants, also mark the passage and slow recurrence of the seasons. A lit window reveals someone who, with no solemnity, with no illusions, both austere and smiling, is awake and reminiscing. Architectures lost in spaces of pure colour beneath variegated and boundless skies, furnishings placed on floors of uncertain, liquid or even aerial consistency, mark with their right angles a fervent and tenacious presence, redeeming a nature otherwise empty and devoid of hope.

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