ROBERTO MIGLIETTA

FROM WIRE TO IRON

After his first experiences in the world of art with Clausura Srl, a textile company specializing in decors and linens, Roberto Miglietta opened his first showroom on Via Montenapoleone in Milan, immersing himself in the worlds of design and furniture. His artistic research then evolved into the realm of visual arts, where wood, iron and light become tools to tell the lives of subjects, often linked to personal and family experience.

Miglietta has also transferred his artist’s vision to restoration projects of historic monuments, such as the Torre del Parco complex and the Palazzo dei Perroni in Lecce, now the Pollicastro Boutique Hotel.

Today, his works are on display in Lecce, 64 Ascanio Grandi Street.

MY STORY

Roberto Miglietta, born in Novoli, Lecce, in 1955, is an Italian artist and interior designer with a passion for restoration and material recovery. Through his works, he gives new life to centuries-old trees in Salento affected by Xylella Fastidiosa, transforming olive wood into living art. He uses iron, acrylic, brass, stone, glass and jute in his creations, resulting in works that blend painting, sculpture and design.

His innovative technique involves the use of overlapping layers of iron to create faces and bodies, playing with light and shadows to give depth and three-dimensionality. Each work is a dialogue between materials, a combination in which wood and iron complement each other and tell stories related to the human essence.

LIGHTS & SHADOWS.

The painted characters in this collection have wooden clothes and iron bodies. A spotlight peeks out of the frame and transforms the contours of the scene: it doubles each body with a thick shadow on canvas.

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SCULPTURES

Roberto Miglietta’s sculptures combine wood and iron in a harmonious dialogue between matter and time. Wood, obtained from the centuries-old olive trees of Salento devastated by Xylella, finds new life thanks to the solidity of iron that embraces and elevates it, transforming a natural tragedy into a work of rebirth.

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GREAT BATTLE

The Great Battle is a visual metaphor for working life, depicted as an epic clash. In this monumental 3-by-4-meter painting, family, friends and collaborators appear as soldiers in armor, lined up alongside the painter in the foreground. The energies expended over a fifty-year career find space here, in a symbolic struggle for art and life.

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Iron Silhouette

In a play between solids and voids, iron gives life to bodies, faces and objects and expresses its strength in a dialogue between the beautiful and the eternal, between endurance and poetry.

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MASERATI

This wood and iron sculpture depicts, on a 1:1 scale, the Maserati racing car driven by Tazio Nuvolari in 1939, a symbol of a historic victory against the Mercedes of Nazi Germany. Like the song “Nuvolari” by Lucio Dalla, Miglietta’s sculpture celebrates the art of driving through the uncertain roads of life.

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