Ettore Spalletti fostered a dialogue between classicism and contemporary art through a practice in which painting and sculpture merge in the pursuit of an essential dimension and a new conception of spatiality, in constant dialogue with the art of the past and, in particular, with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, from Piero della Francesca to Raffaello. In his artistic language, geometries and archetypal forms, given substance by color, transform painting into sculpture, while sculpture becomes painterly. His colors are not merely “surface” colors, but “atmospheric” ones, possessing a profound emotional quality: they embrace the observer, reflecting light back into the space they occupy.

They are never defined within an ideology, but they are defined within their own transformation. Sometimes, when someone speaks to me about monochromes, I say that mine are landscapes.” E.S.

“Pink is the color of the skin that never has a fixed form of its own, but is constantly transformed by the mood we are in…“I prepare a mixture of chalk and pigments, then apply it in successive layers, every day at the same time, for fifteen days or more, depending on the thickness I want to get. In this time, you can’t see the final colour, only at the end, when the pigments are dispersed on the surface through abrasion, you discover a totally different colour, the color is revealed and the painting emerges”.

“Looking at it, you cannot tell whether the color moves from the surface inward or whether it comes from the inside outward.” Ettore Spalletti

Spalletti’s colour, through its flickering luminosity and pulsating touch, seems to have detached itself from its two-dimensional support, and in his words, “takes on and invades the space”. Ettore Spalletti

"Color, as you move, occupies space and we enter. There is no longer the frame that bounded space. Removing it, the color takes on the space and invades the space. And when this thing succeeds, it is miraculous.” Ettore Spalletti