The visitor is invited to participate in a real theatrical act, performing a sort of rite of passage, once having crossed the threshold of the hall, to become an active participant in the scene. “As if captured in a state of ecstasy, the heads are thoughtful, detached from daily materiality. This, then, is a theatrical representation of a metamorphosis”, points out Eleonora Raspi, the exhibition curator.
Each sculpture tells a story of the soil’s different minerals and chemical composition, revealed through the shades of colour or its veins. Alabaster itself is at the centre of the artist’s investigation, and consequently, the exhibition shows five of its different varieties rich in inclusions, hydroxides and metal oxides: Bardiglio, Agata Chiara, Agata Scura, Agata and Agata Macchiata.
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