About
Born in 1974. Cristian Petrucci lives and works in Rome. If in a preliminary phase of his art production he focused on the study of language, communication and human expression, on a later phase his work is dominated by a process that regulate the unfolding of life in its primordial forms. The artist abandons the figurative to undertake a study that overturns the perspective of the observation, now turned to the internal structure of things thus the organic architecture of the matter.
The beginning of his artistic career sees the development of a phase linked to conceptual-pop, based on the semiotics of faces and the non-verbal communication that characterises today’s social media. All this is made possible by the spherical shape of ping pong balls, a geometric element of purity that allows the artist to discuss the contemporary world. This modular element will be present throughout his artistic path as a unit of measurement on which the natural selection of form operates.
Petrucci’s art can be interpreted in many different ways, his work presents a mysterious and interesting world which we cannot see with naked eye – atoms, molecules, cells, organisms. The white or colourful spheres in his art are arranged like the atoms of a crystal structure or the real representation of a pollen grain or a colony of corals. The artist shows us a world that can be seen only under the microscope. His artwork reminds us of unicellar organisms or virus, represented in very great detail, with its genetic material of DNA or RNA depicted with its coat and spikes.
In whatever way we interpret Cristiano Petrucci’s art, we are able to grasp his uniqueness and he is very successful in provoking the viewers’ imagination.
