Piero Pizzi Cannella - A detail for an artist’s room

At Volume! Foundation, painting can have a new reading of itself, new expressive possibilities with the place, in order to change itself in a volume too. That’s what happens with Pizzi Cannella’s work “A detail for an artist’s room” in which the usual artistic language can mix with the site without losing significant elements of its tradition. The painting has a strong density inspired by the informal abstract style. The viscosity of the colors that trap the figure is one of the typical expressions that can lead the canvas from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional view. Pizzi Cannella’s work is only located on the floor and the place is barely changed. The lizards, the stylistic signs of the artist, are free from the space of the canvas and live the entire area. They are not autonomous because they need to hold themselves to the material. In this case, the material is not the viscosity of the colors but it’s the cement, put into small images changed in metallic figures where you can walk on. The installation ended with a prepared table where there are some people seated. The human presence connects itself to the artist’s work only through its absence. The imaginative dimension now is reality, thanks to Pizzi Cannella’s work.