Ettore Spalletti

1940 - 2019
Born in 1940, in Italy

Since the late 1960s, Ettore Spalletti developped an unclassifiable body of work that straddles painting and sculpture in a continuation of modern abstraction and Italian Renaissance painting.

Biography

After studying scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, he set off on a unique and solitary course to explore the expressive, poetic, meditative, and metaphysical potential of colors through geometric volumes inspired by a minimalist vocabulary. These simple forms—square, rectangle, circle, cylinder— are drawn then transferred to a material—wood, plaster, canvas, or stone—and coated in pure colors using the impasto technique. Following a slow and rigorous process, Spalletti applies a mixture of oil, glue, plaster, and pigment in successive layers, which he delicately sands and roughens with sandpaper. By softening the contours of the support, rendering them blurry and imprecise, he exalts color—powdery and dense—and its infinite variations. Its hazy effects are similar to sfumato, a traditional pictorial technique used by Italian fresco artists such as Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca.

Bibliographic resources

Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (Paris). Ettore Spalletti : [exposition, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris ARC, 28 mars-26 mai 1991]. Paris : Paris-Musées, 1991. 978-2-87900-035-0

HEccher, Danilo. Ettore Spalletti : so white a day : [MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, 13 March - 14 September 2014, GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, 27 March - 15 June 2014, Madre - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, 13 April - 18 August 2014]. Milano : Electa, 2014. 88-370-9982-7

In The Collection

Grigio caldo, 2015

Ettore Spalletti

Verso il blu di Prussia, 2015

Ettore Spalletti

Paesaggio, 2, 2015

Ettore Spalletti

Azzurro, 2015

Ettore Spalletti

Colonna persa nel cielo, 2000

Ettore Spalletti

Exhibition of the Collection

From 20 February 2019 to 26 August 2019

A Vision for Painting

The Fondation Louis Vuitton displays a new selection of 70 works from the collection and gathers 23 international artists from the 1960s to the present day around one main theme : painting.

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