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Benedetto Pietromarchi: building a bestiary for a changing world

Birds, roots, marine creatures and impossible animals inhabit Benedetto Pietromarchi’s sculpture, yet nature is never treated as something stable to be reproduced. Trained in classical sculpture and architecture, after fifteen years in London the artist found in the Maremma landscape a territory from which to extract materials, images and new mythologies. From terracotta to contemporary bestiaries, his work explores a world in which animal, vegetal, mineral and artificial forms seem increasingly difficult to separate.