Natura ferita

Collezione LAB - Laboratorio Bassa Lunigiana 2001

Uecker, Günther

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2506

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 70; Larghezza: 50

carboncino, matita, cenere, colla su carta

After his art studies in Germany, Uecker joined the Zero Group in 1957. The surface covered with nails stands as an antithesis to the painted surface and at the same time allows the artist to explore the articulation of light through the shadows created by the nails. The work in the Museum's collections is part of this field of research. The juxtaposition of the pine trunk treated on its surface with glue and ash as if to protect its integrity, with the violent and destabilising presence of the nails driven into the upper part of the trunk. A nature that recalls the artist's sign - gesture and makes explicit his ironic and desecrating will in reference to the environment and its mistreatment by mankind. In addition to the sculpture, the preparatory drawing is also in the collection. With charcoal and pencil, Uecker draws in a gestural and almost violent manner the design that he will realise three-dimensionally.