Cretto Artwork

Fabio Pietrantonio was born in Turin in 1966. He began his artistic experience in Sardinia as an assistant to the sculptor Gaspare da Brescia, participating in the realisation of works with religious subjects commissioned by the Vatican. His travels and long stays in Australia allowed him to come into direct contact with Aboriginal culture. Drawing from a civilisation still tied to a primitive lifestyle uncontaminated by progress, he becomes fully awareness of an original poetic vision devoted to a rediscovered inner balance and a harmonious relationship with nature. In New Mexico, he got to know the Pueblos of the Native Americans, discovering the charm of the rituals and the fascination of celebration through the symbolism of the sacred. The artist receives an intimate message from these cultures and understands the importance of overcoming the states of alienation and anxieties that characterise contemporary western society, rediscovering contemporary society by rediscovering an original relationship with creation. The "cosmic" order of Pietrantonio's work is expressed through the use of materials such as wood, stone, dust, sand and pigments balanced with metals, gauze fabrics, ropes and even flower petals. Objects he carefully selects from pristine environments and then carefully recombining them on canvas or during ritual performances. The mystical yearning that characterises the research of Pietrantonio's research goes beyond individual religious beliefs and investigates, according to a pantheistic and shamanic vision, the profound sense of communion and reunion between man and nature. Active with exhibitions and installations all over the world, Fabio Pietrantonio has chosen to live in secluded and serene places, in the unspoilt nature of the Alps and in Sardinia, drawing from these places a continuous source of inspiration for his works.