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).