Tomorrow, Friday 28 July at 19.30, the personal exhibition of the artist Paolo Banchetti will be inaugurated at the Museo della Tonnara in Stintino. The exhibition curated and organized by the Clic association - Circle of languages, information and cultures and Monica Farina's M&M Service, with the support of Gianni Canu's GEA constructions, explores the artist's love for wood sculpture Paolo Banchetti, painter and sculptor from Tuscany by birth and Sardinian by adoption, trained first in Italy and later in New York, where, in contact with new avant-gardes, he developed an original artistic language.
It is in particular with sculpture on wood, a living material that enhances his creativity, that Banchetti always manages to find new forms of artistic definition and to transmit passionate visions of his personal expressive language strongly influenced by Nature. The works on display, all made with recycled wood, arise from the artistic vision of Banchetti who, shaping reality according to a very personal point of view, transforms inanimate objects into transfigured forms, capable of telling about musical instruments of pure fantasy and virtual sound and wonder of Nature and the world of plants, flowers and the environment finally respected.
The title of the exhibition “…branches, trunk, roots: shapes, words and sounds of wood” well describes the sign and leitmotif of the artist's work. No tree, plant, bush or shrub was destroyed for the creation of the exhibited works: they are the result of the use of branches recovered from the indispensable pruning of trees, often olive trees, and fragments of wood essences recovered in respect of the environment or returned from the sea. The exhibition will be open until Sunday 13 August.
