Undici preghiere

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Hosted artist: Carlo Trucchi

Hosting family: Manuela Margutti

Town: Perugia

Address: 80, Via Enrico dal Pozzo

Period of residence: June – July 2016

Availability to view the artwork: Saturday and Sunday

Contact: info@artsweetart.net

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I have spent the whole day talking about other people again

and the trees are watching me

as I go home

Ko Un

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The artwork Undici preghiere (“Eleven prayers”) is the concretization of the meeting between Carlo Trucchi and Manuela Margutti, a path of mutual learning between an artist and a customer that was promoted by the Art Sweet Art project.

There is an imaginary path of river stones that leads from Carlo’s workshop, in the countryside around Arezzo, to Manuela’s house, in the heart of Perugia: it is an artwork with a deep relational meaning alongside an aesthetic harmony. Carlo picked eleven stones from the river, eleven thoughts, eleven whispered sentences, repeated and dedicated to Manuela, whose life was flowing elsewhere till then, but somehow marked by strong common experiences.

Carlo tells us that he often finds himself going down the river; and it is exactly there that “there is no perfect-shaped stone, there is instead the careful conscious and focused gesture that allows to pick every stone and make it meaningful and, therefore, perfect”. A ritual, a liturgy, repetitive and slow, as is nature.

This kind of gaze upon the world probably led Manuela to get to know in depth Carlo’s (poetics): they are bounded by a sensitive, confident and patient observation, able to seize the beauty and the power of transformation.

Carlo Trucchi observes the processes of decomposition and of reaction that occur in nature. He examines the cycles of regeneration of elements, he is able to seize the power and the balance of these changes. But it is not as simple as that. The artist manages to seize the right moment to intervene by including external elements, and by checking from time to time the variations that it implies. He grafts some noble materials, such as brass and copper, or some shrilling ones, such as tar. And then he observes. It is a research project with no certain outcomes.

He waits. He waits to grasp the new shape that emerges. He creates the conditions to unveil this harmony and offer it to the observers. When this process works well – when different elements find a new unexpected balance – he (secures) everything, often using an abundant flow of resin, one of his privileged materials.

In Eleven prayers Carlo’s approach, almost alchemic, leads to the composition of an ultra-natural shape, an unexpected graft made up of a shining trunk that reflects the light from the balcony, the house, the city and from eleven leaves; if you listen carefully, they still send back the echo of a whispered thought upon the flowing river.

It is a rare and protected species, generated by Carlo’s care and now entrusted to Manuela’s care. (Trad. Letizia Benvenuti)