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Mauro Perucchetti’s voice as an artist is remarkably self-assured. His mastery of craft is nearly unrivaled in an art world dominated by political works striving to achieve a point through confrontation. Unlike a cultural shock artist like Damian Hirst, Mauro’s approach is almost subversive in its intention: he woos you with the beauty of his pieces, crafted predominantly out of a polyurethane resin the artist fabricates himself, and then presents a scathing critique of our society. His imagery is overt – a deliciously appealing AK-47 formed from candy apple resin – a purple heart shaped grenade– an androgynous youth made completely of Swarovski crystals, calmly exhibiting his raised middle finger. Mauro’s aesthetic harkens back to the streamlined Arte Povera movement that grew as a hybrid of pop and political art in 1960’s Italy, but it is much more than that. It is a re imagination of traditional pop art sensibilities, and it is modern, truly of this century, a mirror of the material desires and so called needs of our society today.
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