2021 Renato Ranaldi

Opening Friday 11 June 6 pm

Il Ponte is opening a new, physical exhibition dedicated to a set of works – Pietre (Stones) – made in the last two years by Renato Ranaldi.
The artist, whose evolution the gallery has been following for many years, deals with this new material – “stone” – whether it is an architectural fragment, a piece of debris or an object trouvé, as a given element on which to work.
Like the canvases of the Fuoriquadro (Out of Frames), on the edges of which, since 2008, Ranaldi had developed his painting and sculpture works, now the event takes place on the edges of stones. The artist works with impastos of colour or mechanical structural elements in a manner which we might define as “eccentric”. Therefore, what is physically and visually on the sidelines becomes the fulcrum condensing the unexpected element that may prompt what is to come.
“Stones are microelements of the world, and, bolstered by his imagination, the artist obstinately deludes himself that he can sound out his own beginning and historic solitude by having to count on himself alone, as if he were a stone: it’s the motif of the abandoned child hero,” writes Ranaldi in the tale that accompanies his book Pietre, with a postface by Bruno Corà, published by Gli Ori for Galleria Il Ponte.