Modern Icon
bronzo, legno , corten
2018
Hypnosis I
plaster, iron, linen
2019
Artificialia Icona
plaster, bronze, aluminium
2019
ex-voto
bronze
2018
Ex voto
Plaster, iron, wood
2017
Hypnosis II
plaster, iron, linen, bronze, brass
2019
Alba Bianca
plaster, bronze, iron, brass
misures 250 cm
2019
Nido
wood, bronze, wax, iron
2016
Pina Nera
mixed media
2019
Piede
gesso, bronzo, ottone
2019
Memento mori
Aluminum, wax, crystal
2016
Memento Mori-colloquio I
bronze, crystal,
2016
RELICS AND MODERN ICON
Historically, in Christianity, the precious remains of a saint adopts the form of a relic.
The body of a saint provided a spiritual link between life and death. A link between man and God.
In it's literal form, these sacred bones are the remnants of a decay, death and loss.
Through my last two series of works, called “Relics” and “Modern Icons”, I try to interpret the religious values of this physical relics and their value in the contemporary age.
Memory and the Presence; not religious but spiritual values, connected inexorably to the past and present.
These remains are objects that become memories of the past, classics and contemporary at the same time, yet connect us to a something new and inexplicable.
For this reason, linked to the passage and return of man and to its deepest origins. I chose to represent a door, a kind of symbolic, cathartic passage. A light drapery, maybe of a saint, ethereal, but at the same time evocative and classical, almost disturbing in its temporal immobility. The circle (a wheel perhaps?) as an eternal return of an aestheticizing memory, and at the same time idealized and deep, hidden in the past and handed down to man through spirituality.
I try to recreate those memories in every detail of my sculpted relics an Icons, be it the living memories the physical structure or only fragments of faces, muscles, drapes, depicting the strength that binds the body to the soul. And, at least, into this composition you can find bronze residues, informal and spontaneous slages as residues of a great immortal era.
Nella tradizione cristiana, la reliquia è ogni resto del corpo o anche ogni oggetto che è o si presume appartenuto o connesso ad una persona venerata come santa. Letteralmente, sono degli avanzi di quanto è andato distrutto e perduto, o i resti di una persona morta.
Attraverso le mie due ultime serie di opere, chiamate “Reliquie”, e “Modern Icons” cerco di decifrare cosa significhino e cosa siano per me, i valori del del Ricordo e della Presenza; valori non religiosi ma spirituali connessi inesorabilmente alla fragilità umana presente nelle “cose”umane, negli oggetti, che diventano giacenze di memorie del passato.
Ricomporre memorie inconsce, accostando a tali resti inorganici, frammenti apparentemente organici: strutture fisiche e muscolari palpitanti evocanti la forza che lega il corpo all'anima.