The minor history

“Michelangelo Consani has always focused on that History that might be defined as other than official History, and that manifests itself above all as tension, vital movement, both at the individual level – the individual as a part-unit of a set to which it belongs – and on the collective level, through a sort of spontaneous, sympathetic induction from individual to individual or group.”

P.L. Tazzi

The artist creates sculptures that metaphorically represent characters from minor history that are dear to him.

Anonimo ( 1900)

Sopra i figli dei figli il sole, 2019

Bronze and potato
160x203x38 cm
Ph. Junko Shimada
Courtesy Side 2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929), was an Italian sculptor.

Il Malatiello, 2023

Belgian black marble, wood
165x36x35 cm
Ph. Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008),was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified.

Shizen nòhò-wara ippon no kakumei, 2010

earth and grass
168x90x60 cm
Ph. Michele Alberto Sereni
Courtesy Aichi Triennal, Nagoya, Japan

Pier Luigi Tazzi (1941-2021), was a art critic and curator.

Momonaku, 2021

bronze
6x15x3 cm
Ph. Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy the artist

Aby Moritz Warburg (1866–1929), was a German art historian and cultural theorist.

Una pura formalità (Il rituale del serpente), 2023

bronze
diameter 3 cm
Ph. Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy ieedificio57, San Gimignano, Italy

László Tóth (1938–2012), was a Hungarian-born Australian geologist.He achieved worldwide notoriety when he vandalised Michelangelo’s Pietà statue on 21 May 1972.

Anarchico gesto di un occidentale, 2023

marble, porcelain stoneware 34x53x43 cm
Ph. Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy private collection

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), was a French artist who is widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde.

Messaggi rivoluzionari, 2021

wood, ceramic and gold leaf 90x53x39 cm
Ph Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan

Carl Gausse (1930–2000), was a German mathematician.

Perfect Day, 2020

plaster, wood and bone
62x58x23 cm
Ph Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan

Francesco Berarducci (1942–1992), was an Italian architect.

Così lontano così vicino, 2021

plaster, cement and cherry wood
variable dimensions
Ph. Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy

Fukushima (2011), Memorial to the victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan.

Fukuschima 50, 2025

plaster, iron

190x120x190 cm
Ph. Erika Pellicci
Courtesy ieedificio57, San Gimignano, Italy

Ivan Dominic Illich (1926–2002), was an Austrian priest, philosopher, and social critic.

Descolarizzare la società, 2019

chalk and wool thread
100x32x15 cm
Ph Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy

Gogliardo Fiaschi (1930–2000), was an Italian anarchist and partisan.

Una pura formalità (ultimo atto di un ambientalista), 2021

plaster, wood, wool thread, marble and bronze variable dimensions
Ph Nicola Gnesi
Courtesy Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy

Marco Ferreri (1928–1997), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, actor, and film producer and set designer.

Il seme dell’uomo, 2010

ceramic
Ph. Claudio Poleschi
Courtesy private collection