From June 29th to August 3rd 2025, the Galleria l'Accesso in Pietrasanta will host “The Sculpture Show 2025”, an exhibition dedicated to contemporary figurative sculpture. On display are fifteen works — some of which have never been exhibited before — signed by four international artists: Pierre Alix Nicolet (Vesoul, 1991), Robert Kelly (Newport Beach, 1976), Peter Simon MühlhäuSer (Göppingen, 1982) and Bruno Walpoth (Bressanone, 1959).
The exhibition itinerary unfolds through heterogeneous materials, such as marble, wood, bronze, glass and terracotta, highlighting the variety of approaches, techniques and sensibilities that today define the panorama of figurative sculpture. The works on display not only show the mastery of the authors, but also the richness of contemporary plastic language, capable of dialoguing with tradition and opening up to experimentation.
Peter Simon MühlhäuSer presents five marble sculptures, a return to his artistic roots. After an initial phase in which his works were strongly narrative, the artist has progressively oriented his research towards a more intimate reflection on gesture and form. MühlhäuSer has expanded his artistic range by exploring alternative materials and digital technologies, pushing the boundaries of figurative sculpture towards new expressive possibilities.
Pierre Alix Nicolet, trained in Burgundy and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, exhibits four works — three in glass and one in bronze — the result of a personal and artistic journey transformed by a long stay in the Amazon. The experience of contact with indigenous communities has revolutionized his way of seeing and representing the world. His creative method involves the decomposition of a plaster sculpture photographed from multiple angles; the images are then printed on glass plates, arranged one in front of the other, recreating a three-dimensional effect that restores depth and stratification to the work.
Robert Kelly exhibits four sculptures, two in bronze and two in terracotta. His figures, deliberately exaggerated in volumes and postures, tell stories of suffering, resilience and transformation. The deformed proportions and accentuated torsions express a visceral energy, an inner strength that manifests itself in the material itself. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Kelly continued his education at the New York Academy of Art, receiving two scholarships and participating in artistic research programs in Carrara.
Bruno Walpoth, finally, represents the continuity of a sculptural tradition passed down through generations in his family, combined with academic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His wooden works, often life-size, portray human figures rendered with extreme anatomical precision but with a strong introspective value. The subjects seem suspended in a meditative state, with gazes that avoid direct contact with the viewer and intentionally rigid postures, as if to underline the thin line between physical presence and emotional detachment.