VALERIO GAETI: OPINIONS

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GAETI: BETWEEN IDEAS AND MATERIALS

Claudio Cerritelli
1990
Sculpture as an icon, an image that trasforms the handmade process of a material in a symbolic place, frontal, where grey cartilage and signs of cinder are palpable evidence of the infinitive ritual of art. The plastic event slitghly treated as a relief made of light paper, fine membrane, parchment logorated by the flowing of time.Restored to a primeval charm, sculpture lives of natural palpitation and of vegetable breath finding in the dialogue w ith nature the deepness of existence

Gian Franco Grechi
1990
In the works of a sculptor you can observe the practice of two intermingled abilities of independent matrix. The moulding of ideas and the giving of eloquence to materials , the artist thinks and through the following acts, his insights takes shape... to do so, he realises and uses all he has invented in order to express his project. Retracing all that became facts of art and served in time with rhythmic cadence and surprising irruptions,promote the authors comprehension of originality. Keeping in mind these factors, we can begin to interpret the works of Valerio Gaeti. A tireless artist in constructing ideas, by inventing sculptured virtuals of what he moulds, shapes and transposes. His wi de and effective spacing touches the intangible, ending almost on the threshold of the inexistent. New and umpublished forms explode in this way and they are promptly accredited. Gaeti went to the unexplored source that conceal the springing out of poetry, not only for his personal pleasure but to collect and generously transmit it. He must find how to do so, he has to find the unusual container. In this way,wicker,canvas, cinder and gold are brought to life.(the remains of Prometheus work).Not to mention the tension that runs the works of this sculptor which is directed to discover an idea, a material.This tension offered by Gaeti, is able to impress a metaphysical dynamism to his works. Lights and shades are used in a way to explain the unusual ric hness offered by the opacity, a chance not to stand out but to attract. Surfaces with precise material consistency appear to have run through by the idea of a drawing, with materials working as creating and unrealised integrity. Intangible coatings spread out reinforcing the metaphor; the recess pushes forward a circumscribed space, an invisible part of the work that is revealed by the colour-substance from which it gleams through. The sequence of inventions offered by Gaeti keeps us in a new real non academic çal futurism, an authentic stream moving dynamically and extremely creative.

Gillo Dorfles
1990
The love for wood and withy, so for two vegetable and natural materials which keep in their fibres something of their "germinative" quality, has led Gaeti to be always attracted from the particular organic constitution of these materials and to become, not entirely dominated, but an extremely sensitive interpreter.