MINDJOURNEYS
material: marble-resin | dimension: 33x33x32 | year: 2010 … in abandonment….I set my journey free from the yoke of the earth … How many times we have had an experience which has lead us to a mental journey, symbol of freedom, of non-stopping departures to an always different landing – a journey able to bring us to fantastic routes, places of desire, intriguing situations… without moving and often in the utmost silence. A tale, a story, a perfume, simply a thought, amazingly a book, made us begin a journey where, if you surrender, you move forward. The viaticum gets a conceptual value where everything is possible, everything can be inverted, where feet give way to mind.
MINDJOURNEY
materiale: bronze | dimension: 30x30x100 | year: 2010
POSTER – MANIFESTO
material: marble, resin | dimension: 40x40x220 | anno: 2010 “Shadows, mute or speaking, go directly deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” Ingmar Bergman, lanterna magica 1987 With this quote from Bergman’s autobiography I wanted to highlight the power of cinema, its ability to talk with our inner self and to leave a sign in our mind. I’ve been dreaming of making a tribute to cinema for a long time – probably since the very day when I realized its impact and its social and human contribution. Therefore, a very important occasion of consideration: the cinema that improves and “grows” along with whoever promotes it who, doing so, expresses his/her celebration of life in all its different aspects, positive and negative, in a meaningful and edifying way. It has the great capacity to influence the human nature. Here is why the choice of using the cinema as an educational means is, in my opinion, very interesting and relevant – because explaining ideas by images can be an effective and easy-to-understand language. In this work, the faces going around the head, like interchangeable masks, emphasize the theatrical and fictional side of cinema. They have such solid identities that they look real, they move us or they bring us to new dimensions. The body of the sculpture, with some posters, becomes a tribute to Italian cinema which represent a “growing” and edifying cinema.
SCENT
material: marble, resin | dimension: 40x40x200 | anno: 2010 Essence arrives in silence…like a gift…permeating with its fragrance nostrils and mind…in the silence, it make us recalls…experiences encounters. Again, the silence is the leading subject of a communicative experience. The scent is the medium of this message, that essence which quietly arrives like a gift, permeating with its hints our nostrils and thus opening the rooms of the mind. In the silence, the mystery of this scent reveals itself following the trace left on our memory, recalling past experiences and encounters. A new sudden situation talks to us about things, places and people, in a shiver of eyes movements. We try to live again, meet and give an answer to this olfactory call. Who? Where? What? A pleasure to breath, a seduction to enjoy, a fragrance to live on and to go into raptures about.
SCENT
material: bronze | dimension: 10x5x282 | year: 2010
GIOVAMENTE
material: bronze | dimension: 70x60x70 | year: 2010
MINDJOURNEY
material: marble, resin | dimension: 40x40x210 | year: 2010 … in abandonment….I set my journey free from the yoke of the earth … How many times we have had an experience which has lead us to a mental journey, symbol of freedom, of non-stopping departures to an always different landing – a journey able to bring us to fantastic routes, places of desire, intriguing situations… without moving and often in the utmost silence. A tale, a story, a perfume, simply a thought, amazingly a book, made us begin a journey where, if you surrender, you move forward. The viaticum gets a conceptual value where everything is possible, everything can be inverted, where feet give way to mind.
MINDJOURNEY
materiale: bronze | dimension: 30x30x100 | year: 2010 “
THOUGH/title] material: marble, resin | dimension: 70x30x30 |
“THOUGH”, a triad of figures to represent the family, origin and goal of all existence for many, a sculpture designed to suggest the search for harmony and serenity recalling past memories to look too distracted that rests on it and for some juncture the lives. The silent beauty of the body, meaning that the value of charge revolves around the awareness that each of us is the fruit of love between two people whatever happens life, regardless of size and choices that sometimes, like a kite, chase the wind.
THE WONDER FOR THE THREAD OF GRASS material: bronz | dimension: 50x20x30 | year: 2013
MIRROR OF HISTORY
GHIBELLINI
SUN MOON
material: cotto di argilla toscana| dimension: 16x34x48| anno: 2013
the CHILDREN
Everything and fickle by children, the joy and the pain is chasing. It is the extraordinary capacity to dream that projects them toward tomorrow.
THE JOY
The youth challenge the universe experiencing every possible track risking the feats of this age and the chills of love.
THE MATURITY
Each project of love in which you do not cease believing is the source of grace.
THE FULLNESS
The tender gaze of those who has traveled the life simply and with a humble gesture of gratitude does not look to the fatigue of the years.
MINDJOURNEY
AIDA e AMNERIS
material: bronze | dimension: 210x50x40 | year: 2008 A tribute to opera and Italian pride – a sculptural interpretation of the famous score by Giuseppe Verdi. The magic of silence envelops Aida and Amneris’s looks while they are pitting against each other. Each one of them want to beat the other and conquer Radames’s heart.
ANGEL OF DREAMS
material: bronze | dimension: 30x15x30 | year: 2007
RAM
materiale: bronze | dimension: 60x20x20 | year: 1998
WAIT
materiale: marble resin | dimension: 180x60x60 | year: 2005 Everybody’s life is a wait. The present isn’t enough for anybody. At first, it looks like something is missing – then, we realize we miss someone, and we wait for him/her.
SCALE
material: bronze | dimension: 55x50x15 | year:1996
WHISPER
material: ceramic, enamel | sizes: 60x20x20 | year:1998 …what silence can’t keep…
BLABLA
material: marble-resin | sizes: 80x20x15 | year:2006 Endless talks and attitudes…. Talking…backbiting…chatting….Without actually saying anything or getting nowhere. A buzzing which frays your mind which claims for Silence and peace. Mabe
CON TATTO-(Tactfully)
material: marble-resin |sizes: 180x70x40 | year:2005
DON QUIXOTE
material: bronz |sizes: 70x25x25 | year:1997 …silence is also amazement… in front of a work whose richness lies in the details, in constant comparison with the pithiness of essential works… MaBe
SANCHO PANZA
material: bronz | sizes: 68x18x18 | year:1997
DONO NINFEA-(Gift “Water lily”)
material: marble-resin| sizes:50x50x10 | year:2005 …a gift is a warm soundless thought… …it offers itself simply, like a flower… …generating wonder and amazement….
FORME DI SILENZIO-(forms of silence)
material: bronz| sizes:50x50x10 |year:2011
JEWEL KISS
material: silver-stucco| | year:2008
JEWEL PATH
material: silver-Florentine terracotta| year:2008
JEWEL CAVASI’
material: silver-Florentine terracotta| year:2008
JEWEL FOUR SEASONS
material: silver ceramic| year:2008
JULIET
material: bronz| sizes:34x33x30 | year:2009
LABAS
material: bronz| sizes:80x30x30 | year:2009
POSTURE
material: bronz| sizes:180x30x30 | year:2007 …Books on the head…Balance.. From the perspective of silence, being our exterior, our attitude displays us. Dignified, composed, unassuming, ridiculous, voiceless, it says something about us. Mabe