Adriano Maraldi and Decio Zoffoli cannot be categorized as a painter and as a sculptor but as two true manipulators of matter. The extensive and varied selection of works in this exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to comprehend and understand that, behind each artistic expression, lies primarily a manual performance followed by an accurate study of the technique within the craftsmanship.
Maraldi's career, ranging from the thorough knowledge of chalcography to the use of earth mixed with acrylics, leads him to a continuous search for a transparency he projects onto a ductile material such as methacrylate. Zoffoli's works consist of iron, copper, clay, cast glass and cement. These are materials the artist is able to forge with great wisdom thanks to the training undertaken over the years at his father's workshop. The predominant use of cement combined with textile and iron leads him to an investigation into unusual forms, making his characters both mighty and elegant in shape. An almost psychological study of contents, as is felt in the works in cast glass, a transformation from which derives the constant need to recycle. A recycling that can be understood only through the creation of the components themselves.
Two apparently opposite paths, which find their point of union in the technical ability founded on practical experience. It is precisely to this concept and core subject of their works that the artists trust their existential restlessness, bitter about a society, in which artisans are sucked into the deepest oblivion, where too often culture is a non-culture.
