Piero Fogliati, LATOMIE

Room 8

Everything, after all, has its centre, which must be revealed. We have our centre, but we don’t reveal it, we keep it well hidden. Mine is the essence of things, that is to penetrate inside reality and try to unveil these hidden secrets. I am the scientist who betrays science. That is to say, first I take possession of all those means that I now fortunately have at my disposal and then I betray it because instead of using it to make consumer objects, practical objects, I use all my knowledge to direct these results, these inventions to obtain an aesthetic fact.
Piero Fogliati

And while he laboriously worked at a petrol pump, in the cold winters of an already large industrial city, he worked out at night his projects made of immateriality, of lightness, his hope of giving the world back its liveability in the wake of Constant, Klein and even Calvino, thinking of his utopian “Ideal City”, with its Temple of Light, its river, whose waters would resonate with new rhythms, the raindrops would take on colour, the winds would create impalpable and invisible sculptures but perceptible to our senses, noises would be transformed into sounds…
Lara-Vinca Masini

Piero Fogliati was born in Canelli (AT) in 1930. He lives and works in Turin.