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The exhibition traces the artistic career of Giampaolo Babetto from his beginnings up to the most current works: a fascinating and rich production recounted through pieces of particular prestige that bear witness, not only to his sophisticated work as an artist goldsmith, but also to the more recent experience connected with the production of interior architecture.

This retrospective, conceived by Le Arti Orafe and enthusiastically taken up by Ornella Casazza, is a truly important opportunity both to celebrate an artist of international fame and to confirm the attention of Florence towards artists capable of expressing themselves with an absolutely contemporary language, albeit not devoid of explicit and cultured references to our artistic and architectural tradition.

Thus Babetto has managed to make his own the forms of Pontormo, and in a less evocative manner has taken ample inspiration from classicism: “His mental and spiritual garb is constantly on the sophisticated lookout for levity and agile linearism, in any case far removed from the earnest imitation of nature. He has mastered to perfection the rules of composition, drawing and colour, and has always also elegantly disentangled himself from the constrictions of such rules, contradicting them as extreme virtuosity, and consciously and never by chance pursuing a sort of liberty.” (O. Casazza).

After Florence the show will move on to the major European sites, to end up finally in Rome.