Eros

Sandro Cherchi 1992

Cherchi, Sandro

1965 - 1965 - XX

939

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 70; Larghezza: 10; Profondità: 20

bronzo

After his studies in Genoa, the artist moved first to Milan and then to Turin, where in 1948 he became professor of sculpture at the Accademia Albertina in Turin and participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time. The work (a bronze casting) proposes a technique that will characterise Cherchi's work and research from the 1940s onwards. The gestures and traces left on the bronze, which apparently appear uncontrolled, reveal on closer inspection recognisable elements and an allusion to the human condition that is so precise and mutable at the same time. The bronze is modelled as a soft material in order to reproduce in its solidity, at the end of the casting process, a result of maximum expressiveness and evocative effectiveness. It should be noted how in relation to the other work exhibited ("Testa" of 1946) a stylistic evolution in the direction of a much more abstract sculpture can be perceived.