Sculture
Biografia
Ettore Cha e nato a Viareggio il 16.01.63. Vive e lavora a Carrara. Formative experience 1981 Diploma of qualification in sculpture and moulding at the I.P.S.I.A. Marmo di Carrara 1982 Diploma Maturità 'A' Level, at the Liceo Artistico of Carrara 1986 Diploma of sculpture Accademia of Belle Arti of Carrara (Fine Arts Academy)
Critica
What is man; alone and absorbed by nature, grappling with the mistery of creation!
This seems to be one of the fundamental themes of the artistic research of Ettore Cha; a soul that grasps at life which is slipping away, a hand searching for a ray of light in a petrified and stone-like world.
Restless and terrified births, embalmed flights, anthropomorphous and primitive visions dwell in the soul and poetical world of this young sculptor, who with a tragic innocence, gathers the sense of nostalgia of a stolen life, together with a dream of grace and freedom, at the bottom of an abyss, in a desolate and apocalyptical world.
Hands. Claws, beaks, wings, populate his creations, producing a Dostoveskian atmosphere of pulsations and solitude, in a disquieting mythology of the underground, from which, cloths, distorsions of formal language overflowing mercilessness, telluric anguish, dazzling ghosts, mutilated legs, slimmy presences, putrid innocence, grotesque fluctuations and winged creatures, unable, but longing to take flight, emerge in a continuous succession of dizziness in an endless abyss...
Although not an easy feat, after artistis like Artoud, Giacometti, Schiele, Vangi and Trubbiani, Cha has found his formal language and poetical style, though examining each and every aesthetic and relational consequence regarding Man, Nature, Animals, Feelings and Matter. Infact his Forms and Shapes bring to mind, screams, solitude, amputation emotion, "warnings", tragedies, as if the hurricane of evil had centered itself on our civilization.
In other words, His is a story of a broken world, unfinished, His is an accusation of self-desctruction, and yet it is an elegy to life itself, to nature itself, which will outlive Man and his lost humanism.
His courageous experimentalism in using different material, and his recent decision not to give titles to his creations, shows us the power his sculptures have, in explaining themselves and in establishing a true interpretative of desire, an "aptico" sense of existance, of he, who would love to embrace the world, but whose arms are too short to satisfy this dream.
In spite of lavic coulours, the semplicity and desolation, his works are able to communicate to us, his love wounds, that trigger off a purification which generates in each of us a seedling of light and freedom.
Milano 08-02-1996
Donato di Poce
