“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”.
– Aristotle –
An afternoon long ago, I started playing with a piece of iron wire. I spent some time bending, twisting and modelling that wire and, at the end, a figure of a stylised man sitting on a chair appeared. After that afternoon, time passed fast and I often thought about creating again, till one day in 2017, when suddenly I felt the urgent necessity to create, sculpting metal wire.
The aim to use metal, strong and hard by its nature, is to transform and let it become ethereal, delicate and fragile.
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