Dinamiche | Venezia

DINAMICHE 
Andrea Morucchio solo show | sculpture/video | 
Galleria Rossella Junck, Venezia
July 4 - August 15, 2000

>>> Catalogue with text by Andrea Pagnes

With the solo exhibition DINAMICHE, Andrea Morucchio — who until now had expressed himself exclusively through photography — makes his debut in the world of contemporary art. DINAMICHE is a purely aesthetic investigation into the nature of the material itself: glass.

The rigorous and extreme forms he has created for this first solo show mark a break from traditional Murano glassmaking, even though he employs its most common techniques and glass types. By experimenting with the material’s inherent unpredictability — caused by various glass lifting and removal methods — Morucchio achieves an informal organic quality within the rigid, ordered, and geometric structures obtained through an exacting glass-grinding process. This approach reveals his intent to treat glass as a noble material in its own right, rather than as a mere imitation or a pretext for reaching pre-established, emotionless, and objective results, where genuine artistic value is often lacking.

As critic Andrea Pagnes observes, Morucchio’s relationship with glass is a deeply intellectual one: he perceives and explores its expressive potential as a sculptural medium, often combining it with contrasting materials such as iron to evoke ritualistic, almost sacred presences. For Pagnes, the originality and power of Morucchio’s work lie in his disciplined ability to respect and reveal the intrinsic qualities of the materials he uses. In his sculptures, the dialogue between glass and iron acquires an almost spiritual dimension, transforming objects into entities that seem to manifest their own inner essence.

Andrea Morucchio began with his own exhibition Dinamiche at Rossella Junck Gallery in which he presented glass and iron sculptures from the series >>> Blade and >>> Enlightenments.

For this exhibition the video >>> Dynamo was produced, made by the montage of more than one hundred photographs treating the moments of production of works.

The series of immobile glass Blades represent the starting point from which Morucchio's sculptural research regarding spiritual dynamism develops. Blade, as a clarifying element of his tumultuous creative impulse, represents the thought that introduces light, and then splits in two leading to synthesis.

The visual projection of the Blade essence is a simple glass point that pierces iron barriers traveling on horizontal lines creating structures that freeze a “continuous occurrence” Enlightenments; there are no physical expedients to underline the kinetic spirit of the works and yet these works communicate a strong dynamic charge.

"Inserting the glass points in iron holes make me feel that the physical and symbolic contrast between glass and iron creates a process of vibrations by which the sculpture is charged with spiritual, dynamic energy." AM

In Dinamiche, Andrea Morucchio presented a powerful series of glass and iron sculptures — Blade and Enlightenments — alongside an experimental video work titled Dynamo. This body of work revealed a deep engagement with the materiality and symbolism of glass, developed through Morucchio’s previous experience as a photographer specializing in Murano glass art.

The Blade series features sharp, immobile points of glass suspended in balance. These elemental gestures form the basis of Morucchio’s exploration of spiritual dynamism — the idea of movement and transformation encoded within seemingly static forms. Here, the Blade is not only a sculptural element, but a symbol of thought, of light, and of inner tension, pointing to both creation and synthesis.

With Enlightenments, Morucchio further amplifies the dynamic interplay between materials. Glass, luminous and fragile, is inserted into iron — opaque and rigid — generating both physical and symbolic contrasts. The result is a vibrational energy that evokes a kind of metaphysical charge.

The accompanying video, Dynamo, composed from over a hundred photographs documenting the production of the sculptures, was conceived as a response to the hyper-consumption of images in contemporary society. Morucchio sought to reclaim the image’s communicative power, transforming it from mere visual noise into a meaningful, almost ritualistic document of artistic labor.

Aesthetic and Conceptual Roots

As art critic Andrea Pagnes noted in his essay for the exhibition, Dinamiche represents not only a bold sculptural debut, but a conceptual and symbolic inquiry into the expressive possibilities of material. Through the rigorous assembly of glass and iron, Morucchio's works assume the quality of evocative, ritual objects — blending artisan tradition with a contemporary spiritual sensibility.

Glass — with its transparency, luminosity, and fragility — becomes a metaphor for light, thought, and transformation. Iron, associated with strength, history, and conflict, serves as both support and contrast. Their union creates a tension where the spiritual and the material, the ancient and the modern, the formal and the symbolic intersect.

Pagnes highlights that Morucchio’s sculptures transcend mere form. They become catalysts of energy, vectors of perception, embodying a unique aesthetic rooted in synthesis, decisiveness, and symbolic clarity. The blade — recurring throughout the show — is a key icon of this vision: a shaft of light that opens closed space, a symbol of fertilization, incision, and awakening.