Pietro Fortuna
Galleria Giuliana de Crescenzo
This exhibition of works in several media by Pietro Fortuna was not large, but it was carefully thought out and perfectly presented. A single large painting in the dazzling, white space of the gallery was aligned exactly with the entry door. On the wall to the left were three small-scale works on paper; on the wall to the right, ten drawings repeated certain themes with a musical cadence, like vibrations of an echo. Fortuna himself calculated everything—the distances, the proportions, the modulation of rhythm and tone from one work to the next—so that the overall effect would be that of a single,