I had a tree which was growing strong and vigorous. During Fall, I had to collect its leaves, that were falling down. It was strong, despite the fact that it was facing north. Out of laziness, I had begun to prune it before it lost all its leaves... I didn't like picking up the leaves from the ground – they were small and annoying. I didn't realise that it started dying in front of me, it was like a hand, reaching out to me and asking for help and all I was doing was cutting, cutting off those branches and that silent request, I didn't notice until it was already dead. Sometimes we don't notice what people are telling us; we risk missing out the very relationship, everything we do brings energy, it is up to us to understand these silent requests, sometimes desperate requests, from the people next to us... not being able to do so means that nothing remains.
Work made with wood, oil colours, real casts with alginate and diplast flows, coating with polyester resins.
PROJECT
Unità Polimateriche [Units from multiple materials] is an artistic project which began almost 20 years ago, when I started mixing the materials together, merging them without distorting their essence. My intention is to reshape objects of daily use into new ones with a different function, and an added value. The aim is to come closer to the anatomical forms of the human body employing biological elements, such as wood.
Often, these biological elements are recovered from abandoned places, sometimes washed ashore. Elements which were once alive, which started decomposing and deforming with time – still, they possess an inner meaning. Hence, the artistic production consists in making these inner meaning emerge from the very materials they already inhabit.
The desire to realise anatomical human forms starting from wood emerges from the connection between human being and nature, between being and matter. Human beings and nature share a lymph which generates, creates, dies and finally returns to nature. Unità polimateriche is a multidimensional reconstruction of the natural processes of life and death. We coexist and we need to share in order to coexist. This is the chemistry communicated by these coloured hybrid shapes: “every tree, every trunk, every human being has a story, a story to tell, a story to make people dream”.
