Incontri sensibili

Luca Petti presents works in the exhibition that are the synthesis of a transition between the animate and the inanimate, between natural forces and their static nature. What looks like protection, in some cases aggressive, turns out to be a docile mantle of structures that hybridise the animal and plant worlds. The use of bright and attractive primary colours, as in the Symbiotic Relationships series, refer to a natural world from which we are increasingly distancing ourselves to the point of barely recognising it. In Albina crestata the artist gives new life to extremely rare beings that in their formal mixture take on enigmatic characteristics, hinting at a knowledge once again poised between what appears and what is.

The artist’s interest in the complex relationship between human beings and the environment, expressed in the different declinations of the Anthropocene, presents itself in a delicate manner, initially imperceptible but as an exercise in attention and care. His control of materials is achieved through complex techniques that, as in the paintings in the exhibition New Solution, leave the forms free to decide their own space and create a fluid composition.