Category: Italy
I Throw the Stone
Box
Nello Spazio e Nel Tempo
“In Space and Time”
Fancy
Nature is far more fanciful than me.
L’Occhio
Num-Num
There is the inside, the outside and all around, there is life, there is death and other lives, there is oneself, none and all the others, there is light, dark and dusk, there is laughter, there is brightness, transparency and it can be opaque.
There is but, maybe and also, a little, nothing, and all the colors, all the fantasies, all the eyes, all the souls, all the sounds, all the noises…
…there is everything in and under every form.
The Ashes of the Occident
Al Cuore del Cuor
My connection and admiration for my fellow women grow ever stronger as I grow older. This was to have been the theme of my box.
My father died in my arms a short while ago, calling “Mama.” How varied, how interchangeable, how understanding of the incomprehensible we must be. How I strive to trust my instinct that taps deep, deep, deep into the strength, the capacity, the tenacity of a woman.
My box is for my father, whom I miss with all my hearts. He was a painter, he taught me to see.
Untitled
Simulacra
Every little treasure has a message inside…..
SIMULACRA is the title I have chosen for my work in aluminum realized using the original box as a model for the casting. I engraved the cover of the box (previously covered with terra-cotta) with stylized signs, although the meaning of this work is not to be understood in these signs.
SIMULACRA (in the Latin larger sense means: copy, effigy, sculpture…) plays a role of criticism to the idea of original (represented by the original wooden box I received) and “copy” (in the way the original one is cast).
You may ask yourself which one has to be considered the original between the two: the two boxes having to be exhibited always together!
I play too with the idea of container and content implicit in the fact that the object is a box.
Finally the title SIMULACRA allows you to think about the platonic concept of mimesis (Art as imitation, in a larger sense), this is not to provide a solution but to push the viewer to think about these matters.
The Gossip Box
Arrivederci Roma
In a world of many and endless wars, this music box of memories represents moments of happiness from the past that offer us hope for a better future.
Invitation reverberates within the box’s walls. Notes hang from the ceiling, filling the shallow emptiness, filling us with the joy of a new moment, a new life, a sharing, a memory.