storia di uno

“After the success of her neat solo show at Salone Annunciata, this last spring, Amalia Del Ponte was invited to exhibit at Villa Reale, where she presented a large sculptural structure, U.S.A. (1971); now, she offers UNA STORIA DI UNO (A Story of One, 1972) in the space in front of the Einaudi bookstore, at the end of Galleria Manzoni. As a sculptor, she could be defined ‘spatial’, and not because she gave her original contribution to the ambition towards the environment suggested by Lucio Fontana (her abstract rigor differs radically from his inspired, Neo-Baroque expressive drive). Rather, because her sculptures seem connected to remote constructivist instances, as they suggest the idea of a primal rhythm expanding towards the surrounding space: not just for the reference to structured planes opening up to the environment, but for the color of the joints full of matter – rusty iron and gray cement with transparent Pespex, all joined together – creating the effect of another kind of opening. A sculptor who shows such noteworthy plastic and chromatic abilities, that her structures manage to live outside, in the street”.

Guido Ballo

“It is a work by Amalia Del Ponte, it’s titled ‘A Story of One’, and it can give you dizziness. If you think about it, it is immediately clear she wants to induce extraordinary alterations of perception, with a whole setting and crystals able to seize us and our environment. All around, a sculpture that can move and interact with the outside. In the middle, the crystal-shaped solid, a liquid hole for ideas, and obviously a passageway to our minds. The sculpture was shown in a little piazza in Milan, dedicated (by Che Fare, Salone Annunciata, the Einaudi bookstore) to sculpture in the cityscape”.

Tommaso Trini Castelli