La rivolta del mondo selvaggio is a large-scale sculptural installation — composed of two figures over 3.5 meters tall each — entirely built from paper and cardboard, which denounces, through fantasy and poetic narrative, the urgent threat of extinction facing animal species in Italian fauna and, by extension, around the world.
The work stems from a real event that took place in Tuscany: the death of a rare Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita), shot by an illegal hunter. From this news, the artist developed a tale in which the region's animals, moved by a sense of injustice, decide to take to the streets — not with violence, but with the symbolic power of presence and resistance. Thus emerge the characters that compose the installation, the Brown Bear and the Mouflon, each representing an endangered species and taking on a leadership role in this peaceful revolt for survival.
Over the course of a month-long residency at Mercato del Carmine in Lucca, the work was produced by the artist, in dialogue with artists from various nationalities who were also in residence, reinforcing the collaborative and global nature of the cause. The sculpture occupied Piazza San Frediano for three months, integrating the public space and inviting passersby to reflect on their own role in the chain that leads either to extinction or to conservation.
La rivolta del mondo selvaggio is not merely a work about threatened animals. It is a sculptural manifesto that questions the place of humanity in nature, denounces indifference toward the loss of biodiversity, and proposes — with delicacy and power — that art can be the territory where revolt transforms into hope.
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