Le bar du marché à Sète, 2019

Loreto Verrocchia  

Verrocchia succeeds in surprising, creating with "extreme freedom within extreme rigor" metal sculptures. “For me, metal has the same geological wealth as gold or diamonds. You have to know how to treat it, handle it with the same respect, the same tenderness ”. Bring it to its limits without ever mistreating it, with as much softness and firmness as the body would require, to soften it, to lengthen it, to stretch it, to shape it, to give it shape. “There are two inseparable and essential elements in Verrocchia's work: Color and Mediterranean. Twenty years of pictorial research and the reminiscences of an Italian childhood result in a vibrant polychromy; the very essence of his works, which he sees as both a jeweler and a metal practitioner. The metal abandons itself in contact with his hands and discovers sensuality and softness, it finds nobility and becomes fabric and lace. His horses are free, they soar and dance without the slightest hindrance, in this fragile relationship between balance and imbalance which is the very essence of creation. “The creative act is an act which distances man from the machine, from the reducing mechanic which confines us to the role of simple performers. To know how to create without any intellectualization, without however losing its intelligence. Simply knowing how to be in harmony with the present moment, to listen to it, to recognize its music and to strive to play in the key. »Extract from Loreto Verrocchia