march 24, 2023 - Kalpa Art Living

Mino Gabellieri: matter, carnality, and affections

KALPA is delighted to present the sculptural work of Mino Gabellieri (1944) among the Galleries’ art selection for season 2023.

In the surroundings of Volterra in the midst of the Metalliferous Hills, there is a territory historically known as “The Devil’s Valley”, where the land is constellated by fumaroles, vapors and silver waterholes bubbling with an ancestral and atavistic strength, and where the rocks take the colours of the minerals hidden in the depths of the earth, creating a landscape of russets, greys and greens.

From this unique region, KALPA’s new represented sculptor Mino Gabellieri (1944) takes his stones, including the iridescent green gabbro. Like a hidden treasure, the Galleries re-discover and welcome to their art selection the profound work of Gabellieri, offering new insights on his long-term sculptural research and aesthetics. This new presence underlines the connection between KALPA and Tuscany while maintaining their own plural identity, bridging East and West, and fostering dialogue between cultures, temporalities, and artistic expressions.

Gabellieri’s sculpture touches the core of the human soul. His lifelong research celebrates humanity, femininity in particular, engaging with the key themes of motherhood and regeneration, body transformation and fluidity, suffering and hope. His work originates from the sculptural tradition and Impressionist aesthetics of the late 19th century, and it draws inspiration from such masters as Rodin, Medardo Rosso, and Arturo Martini. Moreover, his poetics of the unfinished also reaches to the beginnings of art, to the fertility representations of the Neolithic period, encompassing forms between the figurative and the abstract, now rounded, soft and well-polished, now barely hinted at with their rough surfaces. Purposely presenting the traces of time passed, the original shapes of the stones are molded to represent the outline of entwined lovers, enigmatic faces, and voluminous bodies.

Each of his statues is a testament to the arduous investigative gesture of sculpting, guided by the artist’s exploration of his own feelings in the raw material. Along with various materials like a unique Sicilian red stone, most of the stones he works on speak of his origins, including the alabaster and panchino sandstone from Volterra, and green gabbro from the metalliferous hills in the Tuscan Antiapennine.

Graduating from the historical Istituto d’Arte of Volterra (Pisa) with Carlo Calò and Mino Trafeli, Gabellieri identifies the Etruscan city as a key cultural reference for his work in stone. He moved to Valsesia in the North of Italy in his twenties, where he actively participated in the Milanese cultural scene, particularly within the circle of the Accademia di Brera artists, to begin his prolific artistic and exhibition career. In parallel, he taught Arts in public schools. In 1992, he was nominated for the Mondadori #arte Prize, and in 1993 for the Paola Petrini International Prize in Cesenatico. Now after years of several important shows always in northern Italy, Gabellieri's soul-stirring sculptures return to Volterra to be presented within the warm interiors of KALPA Galleries, where they almost could have been born, with their raw beauty expressing perfectly the spirit and philosophy of the gallery, embracing the past and contemporaneity, roughness and sophistication.

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Amanti, sculpture in stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Cariatide, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Cariatide, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura Accovacciata, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail 1

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura Accovacciata, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail 2

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura Accovacciata, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail2

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura Accovacciata, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura in pietra, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Figura in pietra, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Maternità, sculpture in Sicilian red stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci intero

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Maternità, sculpture in Sicilian red stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Testa Femminile, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci close detail

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Testa Femminile, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci detail1

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Testa Femminile, sculpture in panchino stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Testina in gabbro, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci intero

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KALPA Mino Gabellieri, Testina in gabbro, sculpture in gabbro verde stone photography by Vittorio Marrucci

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Tuscany Metalliferous Hills, Biancane courtesy of KALPA 2

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Tuscany Metalliferous Hills, Biancane courtesy of KALPA 3

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Tuscany Metalliferous Hills, Biancane courtesy of KALPA 4

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