Testa

Sandro Cherchi 1992

Cherchi, Sandro

1946 - 1946 - XX

909

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 25; Larghezza: 25; 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 ‘Testa’ (Head) of 1946 proposes in the facial features a desire for representation that is not grotesque or gratuitously caricatured. On the contrary, the deformity of the figure corresponds in the surface finish to what the classical sculptor tends to correct, while in Cherchi's choice it is left unaltered in a search for gestural elements, seemingly random, that allude to the relationship, at once aggressive and liberating, of the artist's manipulation of the material.