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Sculpture, Wood on Wood
Size: 9.8 W x 19.7 H x 9.8 D in
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The surface of this ancient wood shows traces of three different forms of human interventions on the raw material: the intertwining of grooves left by gouges and chisels, the series of circular holes and finally the light touches of color and gold leaf. Like a shaman of a tribal culture, the artist alters the wooden material to get to know it, shapes it and digs it as if to penetrate its mystery, searches for the energy of nature in matter and, by intervening on the latter, creates a mysterious human product and natural, a magical hybrid where the strength of the material and the marks left by the hand that tries to shape it meet. Thus the traces of color and gold leaf intervene only on the surface overlapping the wood, the grooves dug by the tools act deeper and begin to shape the shape, finally the holes penetrate the material with force. Three primordial and archaic actions that from ancient times are at the origin of artistic creation.
Sculpture:Wood on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9.8 W x 19.7 H x 9.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Italy.
Customs:Shipments from Italy may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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Claudio Marziali is an Italian artist living in Bergamo; he senses a strong connection with the wood element, which he has always worked with , also as a specialist restorer. When still an adolescent child, he becomes passionate about art, and turns to analogue photography. His style includes naturalistic and experimental images with a strong intimate quality. Later, he turns to painting and sculpture, which will become his favourite expressive medium. Influenced by the East and by the works of architects such as Nakashima and artists like Kenjirō Azuma – as well as Louise Nevelson – he creates his last collection of wooden sculptures “Recuperi”, in which the strong connection between the artist and the natural world is obvious. Marziali opposes the adulteration and distortion of wood, opting instead for spontaneous manipulations of the shapes, and preferring gold as the best tool to highlight the areas which are most damaged and corroded by time. In accordance with the zen philosophy of kintsugi, where beauty in an object is enhanced by its breaking, and with the way of seeing things, also Japanese, of wabi-sabi – which welcomes and enhances the imperfections of time – Marziali has created works which are defined precisely by the free interpretation of the observer, who an independent ‘user’ who relies, in his readings, purely on his senses and his personal history. Each piece does not tell its story, but reveals the story of the one who is observing. “I believe that we Westerners are inclined by culture to try to dominate and tame nature and to rationally explain things. Thus, we see things as if they were rivers forced into cemented margins. I love to accept nature as it is: I take the beam or log and I wash it, I consolidate it and brush it almost with a kind of reverence, since nature and time have already done their patient work. Then I add only some color and gold to highlight their scars, which are the same as those of Man.” Claudio Marziali.
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