Pietro Moretti
Le storture del cactus

13.04.
11.05.23
Milano

The works of Pietro Moretti, which interweave stories of the mundane and the imaginary, question the ambivalence of feelings in intimate relationships, the complexity of the desire to belong, the male identity and the way the unspoken resurfaces through the body, revealing the illusions, pain, fragility and contradictory nature of desire. 

Inspired by the atmosphere in fairy tales and myths, the signature features of comic books and elements of the grotesque, the works shown in this exhibition are linked by a tension between the individual and the collective, and by an emphasis on desire in situations of loneliness and lack of intimacy. The characters that populate the visual world of these paintings are trying to escape the emptiness that lurks as a real possibility in every life, but they stumble over their own urges and bodies. They are often caught in branching gestures: Bodies that hold, entangle, fall, embrace, transform, touch and escape. For Moretti, the body is the expression of one’s self and one’s psychological reality, the means by which we enter into a relationship, dialogue and conflict with the values and expectations of a particular social context. Gestures become carriers of the relationship between the interior and exterior of the subjects, just as they suggest a flow of different temporalities between something that takes shape and something that loses it.

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