Untitled 1999

This is an ‘Untitled’ piece, by Ettore Spalletti. It’s just so…clean. The pure white cube is like a minimalist stage, and then BAM, this serene, powdery blue rectangle sits right on top. It's not just blue; it's like a memory of blue, a whisper of the sky. The way the blue hovers over the white—it almost doesn't touch it, like a thought barely making contact with reality. Spalletti was all about this ethereal, almost untouchable quality. You see it in his other works, too, this pursuit of a color that feels like it’s floating, a shape that's more about presence than form. There's a touch of Agnes Martin in that quietude, that refusal to shout. It’s a painting, but it’s also an object, a meeting of worlds where color and form dance a slow, meditative tango.