Material: clay modules, silicone mould and diplast castings, water-curved punches
Sometimes life surprises us, we are helpless before it, we are overwhelmed. Our body has developed to protect our more important organs: the rib cage protects us from all that is external, allows us to expand and to move, it envelops us like thermo-folded spirals that wrap the structure of our essence. The fascinating and constant rhythm of the spine, sinuous, that transmits force and lifts the body. The spine protects our movements, contains the cranio-sacral fluid that follows the frequency of our emotions. Sometimes the openness and the freedom of what we have inside can leave, sometimes they can stay in this protected place in order for it to be preserved.Work made with mixed techniques: clay modules, silicone mould and diplast castings, water-curved punches, water-based colours, polyester resin surface coating. PVC base with metal bayonet fitting and cement casting.
THE 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”.
