SUPERFICI

For SUPERFICI, I married painting and sculpting, working in pigment, oil paint, and mixed media to render 3D textural surfaces on canvas that evoked the movement and feel of nature. “Although not quite sculptures, the artworks are definitely three-dimensional paintings. For the materials I used, you could say that it is like mixing oil and water, but I made it work in synchrony,” detailed the Italian artist. “The process revealed itself to be the perfect analogy for what occurs in nature. As earth goes from one natural phenomenon to another, new life emerges,” added Perucchetti who named his exhibit after a term coined by the late painter Enrico Castellani: SUPERFICI or surfaces.

Multidisciplinary artist Mauro Perucchetti encapsulates the cycle of nature and renewal through examining relationships between humankind and the natural world. The artist's environmental interventions reflect upon timelines spanning from prehistoric oceans to present-day earth topography. The scope of Perucchetti self-defined New Earth Art underlines the increasingly toxic global environment confronting our planet in the new millennium. Perucchetti generates new ecosystems configured between organic materials. His aesthetic invokes earth surfaces and addressing climate change.

Ultimately, SUPERFICI is Perucchetti’s love letter to nature, one that reaffirms his commitment to using his art to help protect it. “Addressing climate change is crucial now more than ever. Seeing surfaces of earth, caves, volcano eruptions, coral reefs eroding, deforestation and wildfires, we need to respect planet earth. Being in nature has always been my heaven on earth.”