Aronne Pleuteri

Aronne Pleuteri, born in Erba in 2001, currently resides in Milan, where he completed his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. This environment played a pivotal role in shaping his artistic and intellectual development. As one of the finalists in the 23rd edition of the prestigious Premio Cairo, Pleuteri is the youngest artist to join the Iannaccone Collection. Despite his young age, his work has already gained recognition in prominent museum contexts, demonstrating a maturity and a thoughtful approach that transcend his generation.

His artistic language unfolds across various expressive mediums, including performance, music, video art, and painting, in a continuous interplay between irony and critical reflection. At the core of his research lie universal themes such as embarrassment, absurdity, and the challenge to social conventions. These are explored through theatrical compositions where the subject—often human—is deliberately diminished and marginalized. This device not only unsettles the viewer but also provokes a reevaluation of their perception of the world. Pleuteri thus invites the audience to reconsider their experience and their role within the social and cultural context.

Among the three works in the Iannaccone Collection, Ricordi di un giorno dopo (2022) stands out as a quintessential example of his poetics. In this piece, the protagonist is depicted in a paradoxical and almost caricatural pose: lying on a meadow with legs spread and raised in the air, as if caught in a clumsy yet dramatic fall. This figure, almost unrecognizable, becomes a metaphor for a human condition suspended between tragedy and levity, between an awareness of fragility and a willingness to mock it.

For Pleuteri, the essence of life is an ironic game, a kind of existential joke whose apparent gravity can always be redefined. The artist encourages a reinterpretation of the fragile and conventional structures that shape daily life, offering a vision imbued with lightness and profound self-irony.