A distinctively different approach is taken by the artist Gianni Piacentino, whohas always explored the relationship between art and design. He developed a passion for mechanical objects, on which he focuses particular aesthetic attention,through a meeting with a motorcycle restorer. It was in 1969 that he began towork on the idea of a two or threewheeled vehicles and to produce decorations with bandings, like motorcycle fuel tanks of the 1920s and ’30s, followed byaerodynamic forms. He also learned to construct works with the correct mechanicaland technological approach. His works look like the results of a process ofindustrial production where the artist is present only in the choice of how to asassemble of already prepared materials. In the case of the work exhibited here, Piacentino created the drawing of an aeroplane, while the frame, made up of partsof a propeller, delimits the canvas. The artist’s attention is focused on coldmaterials in a constant dialectic relationship with industry and design. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)