Pietro Consagra exhibits twenty works for the solo exhibition at Galleria Fumagalli, identifying a path in the variety of stones and types of his sculpture: marble, granite, onyx and alabaster from white to blue, from yellow to green, from blue to black. The exhibition shows the new concept of “thickness” according to which the artist has transformed his work from two-dimensional and frontal to bifrontal, almost like “a wall that divides two fields”, writes Consagra. «The natural sly color of sculpture becomes unbridled, intractable, provocative», continues the artist. In the exhibition the color is fascinating in Trapani marble, in the essential profile of the Pietra Matta di San Vito – Rosso Sant’Agata from 1972.

“Matta” – which means crazy – in the double meaning of unpolished, “possessed”, in the animation of the fantastic invention, like in a dance of San Vito. The color becomes precious in the threading of the inlays of the Bifrontale Bianco Carrara Diaspro Verde e Rosso, from 1975. It is highlighted by the virtuosity of the staggered levels of the two Bifrontali Verde Cinese (the name and the color of the marble, as always, appear in the title) from 1977 and 1991 and by the sumptuousness of the granite of the Prominenza Blu del Brasile from 1992. Or it turns out impeccable, as in the sharp and absolute contrast of the Addossato Nero del Belgio e Bianco Macedonia from 1982.

Or it is delicate such as in the juxtaposition of the onyx in the Addossati Onice Verde and Rosa from 1998 and 2002. In these works, two elements of different colors and shapes, superimposed so that one lets glimpse part of the other, create two different images in opposite sides of the sculpture. Among the most recent works, two Bifrontali Bianco Macedonia from 2001 and 2002, in which the pure white marble sublimates the perfection of a unique vision that is repeated identically in the recto and in the verse, while in the Bifrontale Giallo Veneziano (2001), the dynamism of curves give an engaging vitality to the uniform granite.