Raffaella
Robustelli is a sculptress who normally uses, in a broad sense, the stone,
even the noblest, to create her works.
In 1988 Raffaella Robustelli
began to sculpture the most different “stones” nature could offer and managed,
and still does, to give a shape and a soul to Carrara's white, Verona's
red, Belgium's black, a stone as precious as alabaster, and many more.
I am just mentioning some of the “materials” Raffaella told me about when
we met in Milan a couple of months ago. The sculptress did not abandon
bronze fusion, but she thought that working with the “stone” could be much
more involving. Sublimation of shapes: her work consists of removing the
shapeless nucleus to get to the soul. Her sculpture tends towards a verticalism
of the figures, a tension upwards that maybe is a desire for purity.
Born in Ravenna, Raffaella
Robustelli graduated in technical subjects but later left school and other
things to study at the Academy of Fine Arts at Verona. Now she is happy
in her studio in Verona or between Pietrasanta and Carrara where she stays
as long as she can, to work surrounded by the Apuane mountains which provided
many sculptors, from Michelangelo to Henry Moore, with many raw materials.
Exhibitions, awards, international rewards make up her long and intense
curriculum. And a great desire to work to achieve the goal all artists
have in their heart.
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