Valeriano Trubbiani

Valeriano Trubbiani (Macerata, 1937). After graduating from the Art Institute of Macerata, he attended the "school of the nude" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. His work is developed by assembling different elements (objects, machines, mechanical parts, human and animal figures) that give rise to very theatrical compositions, often played on the contrast of the sublime and the horrible. Tools and agricultural machinery he turned into sinister instruments of torture and physical constraint and the figures of animals - mice, bats, toads, chained cattle or even, in a sort of improbable, monstrous union that has nothing metamorphic in them like generated. With the progress of work his bestiary of other animals, lions, horses, monkeys, fish that pierce blocks of the solidified sea on which they roam Dangerous cruises of armed boats. It also represents besieged cities from which gigantic animals escape or are oppressed.