This sculpture is part of a series of sculptures that take sequences from the narrative context of legends of ancient Greek civilization and sculpt the result of my imagination in a new way of seeing in the modern era, different, sometimes suggesting movement in the process of metamorphosis.
The story can be read as a parable about the power of art and the age-old antagonism between creativity and authority.
Traditionally, in art history, artistic interpretations of the Arachne myth simply depict a young woman in Greek dress seated at a loom; more recent works show a spider with a human face, or a woman with a spider's head.
The novelty of my sculpture consists in representing the metamorphosis in motion from the stature of a woman to that of a spider.
The difficulty in making this sculpture lies in capturing the moment of Arachne's transformation into a spider and combining the correct human anatomy with spider (arachnid) features.
The biggest challenge was maintaining an artistic balance between the agonizing beauty of a fragile girl and the hideous nature of her transformation, between human and spider anatomy.
Ballet is the body's song of joy and pain and the educated art of the human body, to move sublimely! Happyness!
The similarity between Dante's eternal, obsessive love for Beatrice and the imaginary meeting in the world beyond death (in the third part of the Divine Comedy "Paradise"), as in the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, is obvious.
I sculpted Dante metamorphosed into Orpheus, with the lyre and looking back and I sculpted Beatrice with her body shape in the negative because it's just an illusion, fixed on Dante's emotional pain.
Dante explicitly names Orpheus only once in the Divine Comedy, when he saw him among the intellectuals. However, the function of the figure of Orpheus in the Divine Comedy, similar to his general function in literature, is that of a chimera. The shadow of Orpheus that dwells.
The medieval habit of extracting a moral lesson from every fact or work of art gave Dante a multitude of options for his own interpretation of the Orpheus myth.
From the series "Beauty of the Walnut"
I like to explore the texture, contrast and shape of walnut wood, carving on the cross-sections of the wood, on the head of the fibers, where the wood is very hard but reveals its dynamic beauty of growth.
The diversity and nature of the medium constantly provides me with both the challenge and the inspiration to push boundaries.
I patiently sculpt and approach this natural material, walnut wood, which I love and thus enter into an intimate dialogue with each essence to create works that are both powerful and intimate.
Material: Walnut wood.
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 69x21x13 cm.
Year of creation: © 2023
This is a unique work
Technique: carved.
Sculpture for me is the confluence of music, poetry, life and nature in material.
Emotions give color to every moment and it would be hard to imagine how our life would go without them. They are an extremely important part of us as they guide us including major decisions, sometimes without realizing it.
Theories of emotions also make the connection with the changes occurring in the body or at the level of the brain.
When we are moved by something, it is because of the emotion that moves us.
You will thus have the joy of rediscovering your inner sun.
