Cotton cloths, inks, graphite, paper, epoxy resin, cement powder, polymer clay, glaze.The small sculpture tells through notes and drawings, a... Read More
Cotton cloths, inks, graphite, paper, epoxy resin, cement powder, polymer clay, glaze.
The small sculpture tells through notes and drawings, a visit to the archaeological museum of Fregellae in central Lazio (Italy). Under the translucent surface, faces and bodies appear, artifacts with an indefinite identity. They are ex voto, telamons, a horse's head. They tell the story of 125 BC. when the inhabitants of Fregellae revolted against the Romans but were defeated by the army led by the praetor Lucio Opimius; the survivors were deported and the city was razed to the ground. The work does not have a privileged point of view, you have to look first at the front and then at the back or vice versa, hence the title "Bianca e volta" which in typography indicates the two sides of a press sheet. The contrast between whites and blacks, full and empty, emerges. The history of man is built between incessant tensions. Destruction, reconstruction and then more destruction and new construction settle over time.
The fallen butterflies symbolize the soul of the deceased ancestors according to classical mythology.
