Fabio Pietrantonio was the protagonist of the "Sculpture by the Sea" event in Sydney, Australia, in the fantastic setting of the "Tamarama Beach coastal walk".
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Everyday life, the brothers
Fabio Pietrantonio's work focuses on play as a fundamental expressive moment for adolescent children. In the past, play activities involved more physical and dynamic ways of doing things. Today, on the contrary, they take shape in a predominantly virtual and/or electronic context.
To account for this important dichotomy - but also to open new interpretative horizons on the father-son relationship - the artist shows Leone and Filippo (his real children) at the exact moment of their interaction with video games. However, it abstracts them from the current context and places them near a "Jungle JYM", an old iron structure that allows somersaults, jumps and climbing in the open air to children of the past.
The features of the two boys are reproduced through life-size white fibreglass sculptures: white is a metaphor for candour as an expression of innocence, lightness, and ingenuity. The white of a child's soul is opposed to the artificiality of an electronic device.
With QUOTIDIANITY, past and present meet and confront each other in a neutral context. The artist heals her children while they have fun, captures the differences in the game of her times, learns to observe without judging, and, above all, creates new forms of interaction/communication with them.