Classic Marble
Modern Heroes, 2009 — hand-carved white marble
In Classic Marble, Perucchetti repurposes a millennia-old method for modern art-making. Batman and Superman, Catwoman and Medusa, Michelangelo’s David — the heroes and false idols of our time are hand-carved in white marble, inviting us to ask whom we consider true heroes and whom mere images, legends and myths.
Selected Works
Mauro Perucchetti
Modern Heroes, 2009
Hand-carved white marble
190 x 195 x 75 cm (74.75 x 76.75 x 29.5 inches)
“He throws our false gods and anti-heroes back in our faces.”
Peter Frank, 2014
Mauro Perucchetti
The Thinker, 2011
Hand-carved white marble
90 x 67 x 45 cm (36 x 25.6 x 18 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Michelangelo My Tribute to Women, 2020
Hand-carved white marble
174 x 62 x 42 cm (68.5 x 24.75 x 16.5 inches)
To hand-fashion marble today is to transcend anachronism: it invokes the very condition of idealism. Michelangelo 2020 — My Tribute to Women is featured in From Marble to Flesh, A. Victor Coonin’s biography of Michelangelo’s David.
Mauro Perucchetti
The Role Model, 2011
Hand-carved white marble
65 x 90 x 60 cm (26 x 36 x 24 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Damned If You Do Damned If You Don’t, 2014
Hand-carved white marble on black marble base
28 x 38 x 30 cm (11 x 15 x 11.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Fiato d’Artista, 2014
Marble composite on black granite base
20 x 25 x 30 cm (7.9 x 9.8 x 11.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
A.I., 2012
Hand-carved white marble
70 x 60 x 30 cm (27.5 x 23.6 x 11.8 inches)
All Works
Mauro Perucchetti
Modern Heroes, 2009
Hand-carved white marble
190 x 195 x 75 cm (74.75 x 76.75 x 29.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Michelangelo My Tribute to Women, 2020
Hand-carved white marble
174 x 62 x 42 cm (68.5 x 24.75 x 16.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Modern Heroes II, 2011
Hand -carved white marble
107 x 55 x 45 cm (42.8 x 22 x 18 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Thinker, 2011
Hand-carved white marble
90 x 67 x 45 cm (36 x 25.6 x 18 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Role Model, 2011
Hand-carved white marble
65 x 90 x 60 cm (26 x 36 x 24 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
A.I., 2012
Hand-carved white marble
70 x 60 x 30 cm (27.5 x 23.6 x 11.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Damned If You Do Damned If You Don’t, 2014
Hand-carved white marble on black marble base
28 x 38 x 30 cm (11 x 15 x 11.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Word of God the Sin of Man, 2011
Hand-carved white marble
67 x 64 x 45 cm (26.8 x 25.6 x 18 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
A Monument to the Dollar, 2014
Engraved Carrara marble
65 x 153 x 2 cm (25.6 x 60.2 x 0.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Fiato d’Artista, 2014
Marble composite on black granite base
20 x 25 x 30 cm (7.9 x 9.8 x 11.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
October 16, 1968 A Date I Still Remember, 2014
Hand-carved black marble on black granite base
31 x 28 x 28 cm (12.2 x 11 x 11 inches)
Installation Views
Essay
Life is never so complex that acts of heroism can’t break through and set, or reset, standards.
In his marble sculptures Mauro Perucchetti does not simply ponder these age-old questions, he invites, even seduces, us into contemplating them with him. He challenges us — by carving marble, that most obdurate of traditional materials — to consider which heroes are real, and which are mere images, legends, myths.
Perucchetti’s work involves no new technology. He has repurposed a millennia-old method to modern artmaking, in order to give bite to its expression, a bite both ironic and prophetic, ethical and aesthetic.
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