Armetta Alessandro

Born in Palermo in 1996, the artist Alessandro Armetta lives and works in Torino. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo. As a freelance artist, he exhibits his sculptures and installations in Italy and Switzerland.

Armetta's sculptures seem to have their origins in a catastrophic event. Each work is a snapshot of the release of destructive energy whether an explosion, a lava flow or a hurricane. The constantly and almost obsessively repeating fragments or splinters of wood play a central role here. They enclose empty spaces that seem to be protected from the irrepressible external energies by Armetta's pointed, defensive and at the same time filigree-looking constructions.

The Sicilian artist shows an example of this with his Castigo cubes (I-II) at Bad Ragartz. However, the empty spaces in the cubes by no means embody a place of retreat. Rather, they are an invitation to escape from everyday life or from indifference to a destructive energy. According to Armetta, the aim is to displace chaos through courage.

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«A centripetal force that becomes courage and external opportunity, isolating the daily monotony before the passive routine intervenes that contemporary society often embraces.»