The Cultural Association Extra Moenia, after along period of closing a due to the restoration of the historical Palace Actions hour Tasks, where it has center, reopens the own activity with the extension of the scultore Giuseppe Spagnulo: “papers and sculptures”. Spagnulo alive and works to Milan. And' state assistant of Lucio Fontana and Arnaldo Tomato; It has worked with the ceramics, the wood and the iron. Its great works forged in iron interact with the space, becoming more and more conceptual, until to the fusion of all the materials that are its language: iron, sand, vulcanica, terracotta and wood. Spagnulo acts on the primary matter forcing it to its wish: iron slabs fold under the ossidrica flame or the blows of the mallet, assuming the conceived shape, or putting molding on the terracotta like an ancient potter, perhaps influenced from the culture of the father, ceramista master of Grottaglie. The papers become support for sculpture plans but the color and the sexiness of the sign take control the painting through. The characteristic of the job of Spagnulo is the continuous experimentation, appearing zero setting of the language, in a movement that the door to renew every work like was before. Its places are the altiforni, the steel mills and the laboratories where the ceramics is worked. “For me the space of the job is the factory that is a place of ideas, where the fire, the flame, produces the ideas of like dealing, to make the job. Them there is the fire, the true one half. The only materials that return and exist for me are the iron and the earth both legacies from the medium of the job that is the fire”. Giuseppe Spagnulo is been born to Grottaglie in 1936. He has studied to the school of art of its city, and has taught for many years to the Academy of Stoccarda. And' insignito state of the Faenza prize to the Career and has gained the prize of the International Competition of Street furniture to Milan. Beyond to prestigious exposures in the more important museums of the world, she is of the 2005 extension for the Collection Peggy Guggenheim of Venice and in program for 2006 it is the anthological one near the Macro of Rome. At the same time to the exposure “papers and sculptures” in the Extra gallery Moenia, the city of Gubbio in occasion of Biennial 2006, it dedication “the Homage”, one extension of great dimensions: in the medioevali spaces of the city 8 great sculptures in iron and terracotta are placed.

Papers and sculptures of Giuseppe Spagnulo

Inauguration: Sunday 2 July hours 11,00
Espositiva center: Moenia extra
Piazza Garibaldi, 7
06059 Todi (Pg)

From the 2 July to the 30 september 2006
From the Wednesday to saturday 10,30 - 13,00/16,00 - 19.00
Sunday 10,30 - 13.00
monday and tuesday on appointment