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| Damn storm in the iron sea | | Size (HxW) : | 42x52 cm Framed | | Weight : | 7500 g | | Style : | Visionary | | Technic : | Iron | | Theme : | Nature | | Category : | Sculpture | | Price : | Euros 10000 | | Year : | 2010 | | Desc. : | Everything began with the discovery of random rusty nails in the park of Colli Aniene in 2010. I had the vision of a stormy rust-colored sea with a yellow sand background and a pastel blue sky tinged with gray. At that time I had not yet found any component. Some of the finest pieces were discovered by the artist Daniela Ventrone, such as the splendid chain, found abandoned on the beach, whose rings crumble as it was close to decomposition. When she saw the large central ring, surely fallen from a truck, she went out of her car and picked it up in the middle of a busy road. The iron wires woven into the body of the wave on the right, were found in the ‘Cervelletta’ park in Rome. The beautiful, partly corroded, washer in the hollow wave was found by Rosella Lombardelli. For this reason I have decided to dedicate the composition to Rosella and Daniela. At the bottom, inside a little hole in a bracket, a small bubble of air got caught. On the right there are my initials too, formed by a large iron wire. The small irregular pieces on the wave crests and inside the resin splashes are not accidental: they are rusty metal flakes detached from a completely rusted tubular support of a wheel swivel that was found at the base of a high voltage pylon in the park of Colli Aniene - the classic CarloVerdone’s ‘palo della morte' in the famous Italian film 'Un sacco bello'. The remaining part of the wheel support is located at the bottom left. They are sea splashes in a rusty storm and describe air saturated with the unnatural fury of the storm. If it is dangerous to be in a fury of salt sea water, imagine what it could be like to wreck in a storm where a little splash or a small wave can injure or even kill you instantly because of its density. The final weight of this work of art is 7.5 kg and, with a non-homogeneous weight distribution, I had to move the hanger towards the heavier part. The slight table deflection is due to my inexperience with resin, I should have ensured the edges with screws, rather than with glue only. Some curiosities: in an attempt to make a massive casting, I used an excessive amount of material and, during the preparation, part of the resin solidified at the bottom of the container while the remaining material became boiling and exhaled fumes. I was forced to cast it quickly, causing a slight deflection because of temperature and liquidity, then I cut the almost solidified resin as soon as possible with a cutter using gloves not to damage my hands. Solidified irregular resin parallelepipeds were used in 'Poor Snow Queen' which, like 'Damn Storm in the Iron Sea', is a composition and belongs to 'Imaginary Worlds'. |
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