FRANCESCO VULLO ATTO DI FEDE

26 July - 26 October 2024 Galleria SARP

SARP presents Francesco Vullo “Atto di fede”, a new exhibition that explores how raw materials communicate human feelings. Francesco Vullo's artistic practice reveals a dualism between subject and form and highlights the metaphorical meaning of challenges and doubts that characterise the artistic process of a young artist. The will to persevere and his vision is fundamental to the creating process. The alluring characteristics of humans towards stones are reflected into the materials he selects such as travertine, onyx, lava stones and glass. Stones show the immutability of time and they are seductive for their inner beauty. The sedimentary nature  and malleability of these prehistoric and classical rocks are juxtaposed with the linearity of plastic tape and steel wires. These polarities depict divergent, but coexistent, aspects of the human conditions: fragility and strength. Francesco Vullo communicates these contrasting human sides through found objects, and waste materials from industrial sites which are then transformed into sculptural pieces. The transformation and placement of these materials into a new unfamiliar context underlines their inner sense and evokes sentiments from their architectural, social and cultural past of Sicily.

Francesco Vullo investigates how stones tell us some things as they appear to us and as they allow themselves to be read. The spontaneous beauty of stones goes beyond the concept of beauty. For example,  travertine marble is transformed into columns, reminiscent of Greek and Roman architecture and the post-war Italian architecture. He shapes with wise invention this calcareous stone by cutting and modelling into a three piece installation, further reinforcing its meaning with the introduction of plastic tape highlighting the message Fragile.
The use of words into his sculptural works give voice to the artworks on what can be defined as loud artworks. Loud artworks offer clamorous meaning to the subject matter, transferring the concept of silence into a talking liveable message and giving sensitivity to the material used. To conclude, the artworks reveal a sense of absence and silence (defined as harmony of sounds), but the use of wires or plastic ground them into the white walls and the space revealing the general law of beauty. The colour of these sculptural pieces reveals the identity of the unique transformation nature. Whether the artist cuts or frames marble or stone, Franceco Vullo produces compositions of shapes as a work of art that reflect the union between the genesis and the contemporaneity of our times.