Neo-Povera
There Is Something About Mary, 2010 — stainless steel chainmail and mixed media
Neo-Povera is Perucchetti’s return to the spirit of Arte Povera, the first artistic tendency to emerge wholly from Italy after the Second World War. Spaghetti, food containers, poppies, plaster and pigment — materials found in streets, cheap shops and recycling bins — carry an urgent environmental and social message, delivered with the artist’s characteristic cool wit.
Selected Works
Mauro Perucchetti
There Is Something About Mary, 2010
Stainless steel chainmail and mixed media
Lifesize
“In his current series he pays unapologetic homage to the spirit of the Povera movement.”
Peter Frank, 2016
Mauro Perucchetti
I Fiori Del Pianto, 2016
Opium poppies and mixed media
152 H x 122 W x 7 D cm (60.8 H x 48.8 W x 2.8 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Part of a Marketing Presentation on Affordable Housing, 2016
Polymer plaster and oil paint
121 Diameter x 4 D cm (48.4 Diameter x 1.6 D inches)
Working at some distance from his native Italy, Perucchetti re-examines what was considered vanguard practice when he was a boy — its reliance on attenuated symbolism and on materials found in mundane contexts — and turns it towards the questions of our own time.
Mauro Perucchetti
Lost in Translation, 2005
Steel welded nails on a stone base
50 x 70 x 70 cm (19.75 x 27.5 x 27.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Walking Man, 2019
Plaster and mixed media
88 H x 48 W x 20 D cm (35 H x 19 W x 8 D inches)
All Works
Mauro Perucchetti
Walking Man, 2019
Plaster and mixed media
88 H x 48 W x 20 D cm (35 H x 19 W x 8 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
There Is Something About Mary, 2010
Stainless steel chainmail and mixed media
Lifesize
Mauro Perucchetti
Part of a Marketing Presentation on Affordable Housing, 2016
Polymer plaster and oil paint
121 Diameter x 4 D cm (48.4 Diameter x 1.6 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Black Sea, 2016
Polymer plaster, pure pigments, food containers and shoe polish
121 H x 121 W x 10 D cm (48.4 H x 48.4 W x 4 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
I Fiori Del Pianto, 2016
Opium poppies and mixed media
152 H x 122 W x 7 D cm (60.8 H x 48.8 W x 2.8 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
152 H x 122 W x 7 D cm (60.8 H x 48.8 W x 2.8 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Temple of Doom, 2018
Polystyrene and concrete on granite
34 H x 57 W x 30 D cm (13.6 H x 22.8 W x 12 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Body Fluids, 2003
Pigmented urethane resin
26 H x 70 W x 40 D cm (10 H x 27.5 W x 15.5 D inches
Mauro Perucchetti
The Missionary, 2003
Piano lacquered wooden box with chrome studs and leather handle
120 H x 80 W x 12 D cm (47 H x 31.5 W x 5 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Stop Pulling Their Legs, 2005
Acrylic and nickel-plated bronze
50 H x 20 W x 30 D cm (19.5H x 8 W x 12 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Walls of Shame, 2023
Pigmented concrete
185 H x 204 W x 20 D cm (74 H x 81.6 W x 8 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Flag, 2005
Silk screen print on cracked clear glass
90 x 150 cm (35.5 x 59 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Lost in Translation, 2005
Steel welded nails on a stone base
50 x 70 x 70 cm (19.75 x 27.5 x 27.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Invisible Enemy, 2005
Pigmented resin and other media
35 H x 60 W x 60 D cm (13.5 H x 23.5 W x 23.5 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
From the Series of Imaginary Villages Called the Promised Land, 2016
Polymer plaster, pigments, food containers and graffiti paint
121 H x 121 W x 10 D cm (48.4 H x 48.4 W x 4 D inches
Mauro Perucchetti
October 16, 1968 A Date I Still Remember, 2012
Hand carved black marble, black leather on granite base
31 H x 28 W x 28 D cm (12.2 H x 11 W x 11 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Handshake, 2017
Silicone sex toy and acrylic paint
60 H x 43 W x 34 D cm (23.5H x 17 W x 13.5 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Red Carpet, 2016
Red carpet and mixed media
121 H x 70 W x 3 D cm (48.4 H x 28 W x 1.2 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
What the F**k, 2017
Feathers and mixed media
67 H x 44 W x 35 D cm (26H x 17.5 W x 14 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
It’s All About Arses and Tits What About Dicks, 2017
Acrylic on canvas and mixed media
45 H x 45 W cm (18 H x 18 W inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled (Triptych), 2016
Handmade spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
196 H x 73 W x 10 D cm (78.4 H x 29.2 W x 4 D inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Untitled, 2016
Spaghetti, pure pigments and graffiti paints
52 x 52 cm (20.8 x 20.8 inches)
Essay
Arte Povera constituted a powerful statement about rebirth, rebuilding, making solid what had been myth.
Arte Povera, the first artistic tendency to emerge wholly from Italy after World War II, constituted a powerful statement about rebirth, rebuilding, making solid what had been myth, making concrete what had been metaphor, and making reality out of what had been poetry.
Working at some distance from his native land, Mauro Perucchetti has still allowed himself, mid-career, to fall under the spell of Arte Povera. Fifty years later, in an urgent era not of Earth Day celebrations but of melting ice caps, Perucchetti returns to the environmental theme, quite firmly and quite overtly.
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