Pop
Jelly Baby Family at Art Concept, Miami, 2015
Pop is where Mauro Perucchetti’s best-known symbols live. Chief among them is the Jelly Baby — a little sweet in rudimentary human form which, for him, stands for the disposability that permeates contemporary consumer society. Rendered in glowing pigmented resin, crystal and chrome, these works unite Pop aesthetics with social comment: subtle and accessible, never trite, shocking or obscure.
Selected Works
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Family 1.2, 2022
Pigmented resin
Father, red: 1.2 metres (47.2 in.)
Mother, purple: 1 metre (39.4 in.)
Teenager, yellow: 81 cm (32 in.)
Twins, orange and lime green: 56 cm (22 in.)
“These works are political statements but the idiom is resolutely Pop.”
Edward Lucie-Smith, 2006
Mauro Perucchetti
AK 47, 2005
Acrylic
99 x 245 cm (39 x 96.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Buddha, 2005
Pigmented urethane resin on acrylic base
100 x 80 x 50cm (39.5 x 31.5 x 19.75 inches)
Grenades become scent bottles, an AK-47 is cast in transparent red resin, a roll of luxury is encrusted in Swarovski crystals. The aestheticisation of the deadly and the absurd runs throughout — elegant objects that only reveal their sting on a second look.
Mauro Perucchetti
Notre Dame, 2001
Acrylic and urethane jelly babies
193 x 193 cm (76 x 76 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Sitting Jelly Babies, 2012
Pigmented resin
83 x 35 x 48 cm (32.75 x 14 x 19 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
POW, 2010
Pigmented urethane resin, and chromed brass on granite base
60 x 70 x 190 cm (23.5 x 27.5 x 75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Family (Life-size), 2009
Pigmented urethane resin on a granite base
Father 190 x 78 x 49 cm (red)
Mother 170 x 68 x 44 cm (purple)
Child 120 x 54 x 36 cm (yellow)
Twin one 90 x 35 x 24 cm (lime green)
Twin two 90 x 35 x 24 cm (orange)
All Works
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Family 1.2, 2022
Pigmented resin
Father, red: 1.2 metres (47.2 in.)
Mother, purple: 1 metre (39.4 in.)
Teenager, yellow: 81 cm (32 in.)
Twins, orange and lime green: 56 cm (22 in.)
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Family 0.9, 2012
Pigmented resin
Father: 90 cm (36 in.)
Mother: 81 cm (32.4 in.)
Twins x 2: 56 cm (22.4 in.)
Small child: 45 cm (18 in.)
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Cross: Cloning and Religion, 2000
Jelly babies encapsulated in urethane resin
207 x 100 cm (81.5 x 39.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby 1, 2, 3, 2003
Urethane
131 x 55 x 33 cm (51.5 x 21.6 x 13 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Notre Dame, 2001
Acrylic and urethane jelly babies
193 x 193 cm (76 x 76 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Cloning Factory, 2000
Urethane jelly babies on acrylic slides suspended in urethane
143 x 122 cm (56.25 x 48 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Risky Business, 2002
Condoms encapsulated in urethane
207 x 100 cm (81.5 x 39.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Blast, 2005
Urethane resin with chromed steel on acrylic slides
100 x 183 cm (39.5 x 72 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
AK 47, 2005
Acrylic
99 x 245 cm (39 x 96.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Totems to Warmongering, 2005
Acrylic and chromed steel; 24-carat gold plated aluminium and chromed steel.
208 x 30 x 30 cm (82 x 11.75 x 11.75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
And the Award Goes to..., 2005
Swarovski crystal, stainless steel, fibreglass figure
210 x 55 x 28 cm (82.5 x 21.5 x 11 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Little Precious One, 2005
Swarovski crystals on fibreglass figure
130 x 40 x 30 cm (51 x 15.75 x 11.75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Chairman Mao, 2006
Painted fibreglass
131 x 55 x 33 cm (51.5 x 21.5 x 13 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Precious One, 2005
Swarovski crystals and pigmented urethane resin on fibreglass figure
Life size
Mauro Perucchetti
The Power of Love (7x4), 2006
Pigmented urethane resin and chrome on acrylic panel.
150 x 160 x 15 cm (59 x 63 x 6 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Luxury Therapy, 2008
Pigmented urethane resin, glass, Swarovski crystals and chrome metal on acrylic panel
120 x 200 x 15 cm (47.25 x 78.75 x 6 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Buddha, 2005
Pigmented urethane resin on acrylic base
100 x 80 x 50cm (39.5 x 31.5 x 19.75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Three Politicians, 2007
Pigmented urethane resin on black granite
42 x 110 x 28 cm (16.5 x 43.25 x 11 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Doorway to Heaven, 2007
Pigmented urethane resin, chrome blades, stainless steel, glass, wood and LEDs
227 x 140 x 50 cm (89.5 x 55 x 19.75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Golden Egg, 2007
Pigmented urethane resin and polished aluminium
160 x 80 x 80 cm (63 x 31.25 x 31.25 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Jelly Baby Family (Life-size), 2009
Pigmented urethane resin on a granite base
Father 190 x 78 x 49 cm (red)
Mother 170 x 68 x 44 cm (purple)
Child 120 x 54 x 36 cm (yellow)
Twin one 90 x 35 x 24 cm (lime green)
Twin two 90 x 35 x 24 cm (orange)
Mauro Perucchetti
Sitting Jelly Babies, 2012
Pigmented resin
83 x 35 x 48 cm (32.75 x 14 x 19 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, 2009
Pigmented urethane resin on granite base
62.5 x 130.5 x 48 cm (24.5 x 51 x 19 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Midnight Dance (x3)
Pigmented resin
105 x 75 x 62 cm (41 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Widely Abused, 2009
Pigmented urethane resin, Swarovski crystals, glass, 24-carat gold leaf, sand and black granite
98 x 30 x 30 cm (38.5 x 12 x 12 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Icarus (3x3), 2010
Pigmented resin, Swarovski crystals on acrylic
85 H x 85 W x 15 D cm (34 x 34 x 6 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Garden of Eden (3x3), 2010
Pigmented urethane resin, Swarovski crystals and polished stainless steel on acrylic panel
85 x 85 x 15 cm ( 33.5 x 33.5 x 16 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Love Serum, 2009
Polished stainless steel, acrylic and urethane resin, on granite base
186 x 143 x 80 cm (73 x 56.5 x 23.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
POW, 2010
Pigmented urethane resin, and chromed brass on granite base
60 x 70 x 190 cm (23.5 x 27.5 x 75 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
The Emperor’s New Colours, 2010
Tins, silkscreen labels, stainless steel and glass
130 x 160 x 16 cm (51 x 63 x 6.25 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Guns and Roses 0.8, 2010
Pigmented urethane resin, cast iron with patina on a granite base
90 x 60 x 60 cm (35.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Wall Street, 2010
Mixed media
160 x 90 x 35 cm (64 x 36 x 14 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
HM 1.2, 2011
Pigmented resin
60 x 10 x 10 cm (23.6 x 3.9 x 3.9 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Flag, 2011
Urethane resin, stainless steel
140 x 94 x 3 cm (55.1 x 37 x 1.2 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Route 66, 2007
Painted fiberglass, polished aluminum on black granite
245 x 100 x 265 cm (96.4 x 39.5 x 104.25 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Don’t Mess with the U.S., 2012
Painted resin, chrome metal on granite base
50 x 28 x 20 cm (19.75 x 11 x 8 inches)
Mauro Perucchetti
Hard Facts, 2006
Pigmented urethane resin, stainless steel and acrylic
94 x 180 x 30 cm (37 x 71 x 11.75 inches)
Installation Views
Essay
A mixture of Minimalism and Pop, fused together with an elegance and an ironic wit.
Mauro Perucchetti’s work is a mixture of Minimalism and Pop, fused together with an elegance and an ironic wit that seem typical of a certain kind of Italian sensibility.
The idea of a ‘moralised’ Pop may at first seem paradoxical, since Pop, in its original American form was amoral in the most literal sense. However, it is at this point that one has to recall that Perucchetti is Italian, though he lives and works in Britain. The works have a studied elegance — but they also make pithy comments on a wide range of moral issues.
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