Borgo Museo | Sculture 1976 – 2004

Biography

Alessandro Righetti was born in Rome on 21 April 1930, however he spends and lives most of his life in Maremma, in Grosseto; at a young age he studied in Alberese where his artistic talent was born and then at an older age he attended nude courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. In adulthood he directed an art workshop where he taught young foreign boys (mainly Swiss) the refined sculpture technique. Many are the awards given to Righetti for his works such as the prize for painting in 1971 and the prize for the bronzetto at the Doria palace in 1977, Alessandro however does not collect prizes only in Italy in fact he is appreciated as an artist also abroad in particularly in New York, Paris and Belfast. In 1983 Righetti exhibited his works by him in Alberese where at a young age he began his artistic career, here he exhibits works in which a maturation of both skills and perspective can be observed. He died in Rome in 1995 at the age of 65 and in particular in the land he loved, the Maremma, he leaves numerous testimonies.

Philosophy

Alessandro Righetti has left a monographic character imprinted in his art as all his graphic-pictorial and sculptural works are a portrait of his personality; in fact Righetti was particularly keen to leave his own being in his works, it is thus possible to trace a line of continuity in his sculptures and paintings despite the continuous evolution of his sculptural and pictorial handwriting. However, the search for new shapes, volumetric tensions and lines that try to arrive at naturalness is constant. Righetti shows an immeasurable passion for what he does in fact he personally chooses the marble he has to work with, something that many artists no longer do. Alessandro’s sculptures are not defined as abstract or informal but rather a freer interpretation of nature where the latter must have a common thread to reality.

Artwork in Castagno

Il segno del Tempo (The sign of time) is the work that Alessandro Righetti dedicates to Castagno, and in this work of his the ideals of his artistic poetics carried out since his youth are summarised. Here time is represented in an abstract or informal way but with a vision even freer and probably linked to the rhythm of nature, to the cycle of life that continues (as suggested by the impetus of the sculpture upwards) and renews itself.A free vision as in the end is the interpretation of the spectator.