COSI’ LONTANO COSI’ VICINO.

 ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy, 2021

 

The sculpture is made up of two elements: the first is a plaster angel, portrayed looking down and with a broken wing.The second element is a cherry wood column with a concrete parallelepiped at its far end.The column references to Brutalist Architecture.It was born in 1954 in the United Kingdom (Brutalism) and derives from Le Corbusier’s ‘béton brut’ (raw concrete), which characterizes the “Unité d’Habitation” (1950) in Marseille.Consani’s work questions the relationship between the divine, man and architecture.

 

Così lontano così vicino
2021
plaster, cement and cherry wood
variable dimensions
Ph Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy

KINTSUGI.

Artissima, Prometeo Gallery Milano, Torino, Italy, 2015

 

The artist places a plaster angel in front of a cherry wood column, the column has a concrete parallelepiped on its far end. The angel has a portion of one its wing broken, Consani reconstructed it in gold according to the practice of Japanese Kintsugi.
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold leaf. It is similar to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi (philosophy of the value of imperfection).
Kintsugi
2017
plaster, gold, cement and cherry wood
variable dimensions
Ph Andrea Santarlasci
Courtesy private colletion