Pablo Atchugarry: The Movement of Light, Venice

This exhibition, the artist's first solo show at the Venice branch of the Contini Art Gallery, presents the public with a selection of more than twenty works, of different materials and sizes, tracing the evolution of the artist's work from the mid-1990s to the present. Atchugarry’s sculptures present themselves to the viewer as abstract figures – intangible – which spread into shapes inspired by natural, floral or mineral elements; or, they are transformed into a daring synthesis which appears to incarnate the perpetual flow of time over things. 

Atchugarry's sculptures offer themselves to the viewer as abstract, intangible figures, then unfold into depictions inspired by the natural elements, whether floral or mineral, or transfigure themselves into a bold synthesis that seems to embody the perpetual flow of time over things.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the monumental sculpture in Carrara statuary marble Serenissima, a tribute to the city of Venice, is on display at the garden of Palazzo Corner in Ca' Granda, the seat of the Prefecture. Some sculptures, including the sculptural group Soñando la Paz are exhibited at the Casanova Gardens of the Hotel Cipriani in Venice. The City of Pietrasanta also, in collaboration with the Contini Art Gallery in Venice, the Versiliana Foundation and START, is presenting The Evolution of a Dream exhibition in Piazza Duomo, in the Church and Cloister of Sant'Agostino, with a selection of monumental marble and bronze sculptures.