Sferico, Basalt Sculpture
Lava forged in the heart of the Earth solidifies into hexagonal columns which « return to liquid » in Sferico`s tondo style, causing the mystery of the profundity of symbolic power to resurface.
Sferico "Girl playing with ball" 102x98x118cm basalt sculpture
If Cubism broke down the object depicting it from different angulations, spherism merges all the characteristics of a given object and remodels it in a coherent vision, that is to say a form in full relief. In other words if in Cubism movement was external to the object depicted, in spherism movement is within the object itself. (“Immobile movement” from a spherism writing) Sculpture of a figure eight structure has the naturalness of a stone that has endured prolonged erosion by water, the ball has the valency of the head and is reminiscent of an electron orbiting on the arm-breast ellipse.
Sferico “Girl playing with ball”
102x98x118cm
basalt sculpture
Sferico "The mermaid song" 208x103x68cm basalt sculpture
The ancient legends of the sea find echo in the song of the mermaid, carved by the millennial waves, merging sinuous movements with a spherical smoothness, in contrast the rocks are brute matter. The melody seems to have modelled the curves of body itself into a mirage which becomes reality. The magic sound is nothing but the primordial rhythms of the waves emanated by the convexity of the shell-shaped head.
Sferico “The mermaid song”
208x103x68cm
basalt sculpture
Sferico "The life time" 102x98x118cm volcanic basalt sculpture
The surface is a discernible border between the self and the world. The work originates as a wavy line which spreads from foot to torso, the same will flow into the “final place” which is the head, where the wave will spill itself onto the body in a continuous prodigy of renewal. The sculpture does rest on the ground but the crux is the arm entering the other dimension.
Sferico “The life time”
102x98x118cm
volcanic basalt sculpture
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