Iginio Iurilli's Solo Show at Bianco Contemporaneo in Rome

Iginio Iurilli, born in Gioia del Colle in 1943 and living in Capurso, is the subject of a solo exhibition at Bianco Contemporaneo, a new gallery in Rome's elegant Trieste district. The show provides an opportunity to reassess an artist whose work, developed over more than fifty years, has achieved a personal synthesis of environment and accident, nature and culture. Iurilli's sculptures combine terracotta coated with quartz and salt, water-molded paper, and wood, evoking a symbiotic relationship between invention and memory, the organic and the mineral. His practice is compared to Anish Kapoor's for its blend of individual territorial experience with international formal lessons, but Iurilli's Mediterranean sensibility—rooted in meridional light and the dark vitality of the sea—is uniquely his own. The exhibition is accompanied by videos from Apulian filmmakers, notably an imaginative homage by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.