Pino Pascali
«Pascali beautifully combined primary and mythical forms of Mediterranean culture and nature (Mother Goddess and Venus, the Sea, the Land, the Fields, the agricultural tools and rituals) with childish representations of Play and Adventure (prehistorical animals, animals of the zoo and the sea, war toys, the world of Tarzan and the jungle, caterpillars and worms, costumes, Punchinello).He translated the world of imagination into monumental forms and essential structures, concise, like the Apulian romanesque features and the medieval bestiary characteristics of its churches, which at the same time remind us of the symbols of spreading mass culture (comics, cinema, fashion). He makes his “fake sculptures” with fragile and ephemeral materials (canvas, wood, steel wool, acrylic hair, straw, raffia). By doing so he offers an original and critical response o new trends coming from the United States, such as Pop Art and Minimal Art.»
