Directly from Shanghai’s MOCA, following the Kuala Lumpur success, Oliviero Rainaldi comes again in Singapore at Partners & Mucciaccia Gallery with an exhibition that presents works from the past two events dedicated to him in 2015, both sponsored by Maserati to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company, which commissioned a large retro illuminated marble work entitled “Neptune in the Wind”, where the trident hold by the God represent their logo.

The great success of public and critics of “ECHOS” convinced the museum’s director, Samuel Kung, to extend the exhibition for one more month. Some of the most important Chinese newspapers recommended “ECHOS” among the most interesting events of the year together with David Hockney, Mark Bradford and Markus Lupers exhibitions. On the occasion of the exhibition “TWINS” at Petronas Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Rainaldi received the prize “Personality of the Year” by the Branding Association of Malaysia.

The exhibition at Partners & Mucciaccia Gallery is a tribute to the sculptor and his very personal research, which since the 1980s has been focusing on the human figure, its metaphysical nature, and the relationship between the human being and the spiritual world.

Rainaldi consistently pursued the research using different media (drawing, painting and sculpture) as evidenced by the works on display. Among them, there are two particularly remarkable: the enigmatic “Gisant” (1993), inspired by Manet’s “Bullfighter”, a solitary male figure, which seems like floating in the atmosphere that highlights his most perfect forms; or “The Argonaut” (2011). These are two of the many sculptures by this meditative artist that share the same old forms of an ancient Greek kouros or the hieratic and pure lines of an Etruscan relief with.