Ettore Spalletti

Perhaps no artist today conveys so poetically the precariousness underlying the apparent stability of life and culture than Ettore Spalletti. “Poetically” does not mean softness of thought or the search for elevated but ultimately empty gestures: here it is a question of an artist building a bridge between himself and the world in a decidedly concrete manner and using all the strategies known to him, from physical beauty to conscious historical references, to achieve this end. Beauty is notoriously difficult, if not impossible, to define.