Spoleto

Ilva 2000

Lorenzetti, Carlo

1962 - 1962 - XX

2437

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 112; Larghezza: 75; Profondità: 43

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Carlo Lorenzetti, international sculptor and artist Teacher at the French Academy in Rome, he is known for his metallic, embossed iron and brass sculptures. In 1962, historian and critic Giovanni Carandente invited him to the open-air exhibition Sculptures in the City in Spoleto. Lorenzetti favoured the use of metal plates on which he experimented with weights and balances: his poetics recall the mobile sculptures of the well-known American artist Alexander Calder. The work ‘Spoleto’ follows this mode of expression by proposing a contrast between the thickness of the iron plates that make up the vertical part of the sculpture and their ability to generate a stable balance on a relatively small wooden base. Even the bending of the metal seems to follow rules referring to softer and more flexible materials in a search for dynamism without the component of movement.