Sculptures

“...an artist of heads and with a good head. With a good head because his oeuvre always seems to be guided by intelligence.  Of heads, because his favourite subject as a sculptor is heads (…) like his mysterious paintings, made using everyday materials (sand, gauze, papier mâché) which remind us of fantastic cities and would enchant Georges Perec, the French writer who wrote “Life: A User's Manual,” or imaginary landscapes where one would love to get lost; heads (and masks) are extremely personal creations in bronze, plaster of Paris, or wood, and Pietro has been modelling them for years, looking inside things for the essence of every reality. They are all painful witnesses to today, portraits of man wounded by the vulgarity of the present...”

Alfredo Barberis, Montereggio - 1983