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WHERE SCULPTURES COME TO LIFE
“Everything I have experienced has influenced me and contributed to forging my personality: when I carve the matter, unconsciously, I transfer it into my works.”
When one of my works takes shape, first in my mind, then in the matter, I never know for sure what the input was, perhaps simply life. There are no artists I draw particular inspiration from, even if willing or not, we contaminate each other in a mutual enrichment: by observing others, their ideas can merge with mine and give birth to something new, innovative and unexpected.
HOW DOES ONE
OF MY SCULPTURES
COME TO LIFE
What do I want to communicate? This is generally the starting point, and it is intertwined with the experiences of my life. My sculptures are always figurative: I like to discover the expressive potential of the human body.
Unlike other sculptors, I do not sketch down: I figure what I want to create little by little in my head. Thus I start a long artistic research to understand what symbolisms I want to tell and what emotions I wish to convey. I cast a small-scale sketch to better visualize what the finished work will be: during this phase, I study the perspectives, the lines of force and the dynamism of the sculpture.
When the final work begins to take shape, thanks to the iron structure I use, I begin to weld the various parts together according to the shape I want to obtain. When I am happy with the shape, I cover the iron structure with clay, reworking the shape several times until I am content. Subsequently, I make a plaster cast to obtain the final model. At the same time, I start thinking about the materials I want to use on that work. In the case it is marble that I decide to use, I make the transposition of the figure through the method of transporting the points, used since the time of Canova.
The real challenge consists in combining the technical limits of the material with the artistic aspects: volumes, chiaroscuro, shadows and lights are fundamental
