Pierluigi Scandiuzzi

His work is based above all on depicting objects and situations that most people would call banal, obvious and even ugly. In his view, what we tend to consider obvious and insignificant actually has the capacity to reveal, in a deeper and more authentic way, countless aspects of existence that are hard to reach from broader, more elaborate or grandiloquent perspectives. His works thus take the form of fragments, often heterogeneous, that aim to restore or highlight the dignity and the historical and symbolic value that every object holds, outside any hierarchy: grandmother’s old candelabrum, a kitsch ornament, a tennis ball, a planet in the starry night, a frayed and worn wicker carpet beater.

The subjects he depicts are often linked to an interior, like the one that surrounds us every day in the room we live in: ordinary things, usually furnishings or specific utensils and assorted household goods, or pictures and furniture, or some gadget on the floor.