SOPRA I FIGLI DEI FIGLI IL SOLE

Curated by Piero Gilardi

PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy, 2019

The idea is to intervene on the sculpture of an anonymous artist from the past century and the install the work in the museum’s park.

Since I was a child, I have lived with this sculpture. It’s a plaster cast of a deer. I have always taken it with me, overtime I have moved home, thorough the course of almost XXX years. The paster is an incredibly frail material, not easy to preserve and so the sculpture underwent many transformation due to atmospheric agents and accidents: first it lost its ears, then part of the arts and, eventually, falling, it cracked in multiple places. The intention is to act a further transformation of the sculpture through a bronze cast. the result is a bronze deer with a sprouting potato on its head. I intend to place the potato in the sculpture as a constitutivee element of the sculpture itself; as an element natural which is mutating, a vital flux which cannot be controlled by men and which invites us to reflect on our relationship with the “Eternal” (represented by the bronze) and the ephemerality of the vital element which mutates in relation to external circumstances (the potato): it is a work that strives to resist through transformation and to adapt to the circumstances.