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ATHLETA noce Sculpture

Francesco Alpigiano

Italy

Sculpture, Wood on Wood

Size: 12.6 W x 24.4 H x 8.7 D in

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ATHLETA series The anthropomorphic appearance of the sculpture enhances the dynamism typical of sports activities. The Athlete is caught at the peak of an exasperated aerodynamic movement that is configured both as a dynamic moment and as an athletic gesture. The sculpture looks like an upside down figure upside down, in order to give the effect of the subject engaged in the typical "Breakers" movement by simulating the athletic gesture in its rotating apex. Balanced on one point, thanks to the lines and edges that characterize it, the sculpture highlights harmony and fluidity, as if it were in motion. I want to clarify that the sculpture is made from a single piece of seasoned wood and previously treated with woodworm products, the visual "defects", such as cracks or anomalous veins, are natural elements typical of all the wood essences worked from a single block, for to which, since wood is a "living" material, imperfections are an integral part of the work as a whole. Title: ATHLETA walnut Technique: Sculpture made from a single block of wood in national walnut Sculpture size: cm. 62 x 22 x 32 Base size: cm. 17.5 x 17.5 x 7.5 Year 2012 Weight: 6 kg Serie ATHLETA Le sembianze antropomorfe della scultura esaltano la dinamicità tipica dell’attività sportiva. L’Athleta è colto al culmine di un esasperato movimento aerodinamico che si configura sia come momento dinamico sia come gesto atletico. La scultura si presenta come figura capovolta a testa in giù, in modo da dare l’effetto del soggetto impegnato nella tipica movenza da “Breakers” simulando il gesto atletico nel suo apice rotatorio. Posta in equilibrio su un punto, grazie alle linee e agli spigoli che la caratterizzano, la scultura evidenzia armonia e fluidità, come se fosse in movimento. Tengo a precisare che la scultura è realizzata da un unico pezzo di legno stagionato e preventivamente trattato con prodotti antitarlo, i “difetti” visivi, quali spaccature o venature anomale, sono elementi naturali tipici di tutte le essenze lignee lavorate da un unico blocco, per cui, essendo il legno un materiale “vivo” le imperfezioni fanno parte integrante dell’opera nel suo insieme. Titolo: ATHLETA noce Tecnica: Scultura realizzata da un unico ceppo di legno in Noce nazionale Dimensione scultura: cm. 62 x 22 x 32 Dimensione base: cm. 17,5 x 17,5 x 7,5 Anno: 2012 Peso: kg 6

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Sculpture:Wood on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12.6 W x 24.4 H x 8.7 D in

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He began his training as an advertising graphic taking care of the image of the musical and cultural events of various associations of his city Nuoro. At the same time he began his artistic career experimenting pictorial techniques on alphanumeric typographic language. What interests him are some of the printing methods and in particular the typographic technique of the "relief form composed of movable type" (type), from which it draws inspiration; inspiration that begins to manifest itself in the works presented at the first national exhibition in which it participates, "Artefiera" of 1992 in Florence. His work is also appreciated by critics who recognize the award as the best young person under 25. The remarkable confirmation and the conceptual impact of pictorial representations of the symbols commonly called Type, had, and has, a primary importance in the symbolic research of the creative path elaborated by the artist in the following years. The method "Gutemberg - universal and primordial symbol of mass communication not only in the dissemination of culture, but also in the social and civil formation of peoples and in the progress of communication itself - is contextualized and used in pictorial representation, as a universal idiom of visual communication : the Type graphic sign evokes the immediate visual link between the object in its materiality (graphic sign engraved on a wooden parallelepiped) and its pictorial representation, which becomes the basis of global visual communication. In the work TypeCity, engobed red-clay bas-relief, created in 2003 and presented at the most important ceramics competition in Sardinia, the letters and numbers give a peculiar physiognomy to the work that takes on its characteristic alphanumeric code through the use of multiple characters types of different sizes and shapes which alternate and follow one another, in an absolutely random order, but in perfect compositional balance. Recent example of the use of Type is given by the pictorial series "Letters" started in 2008 with progressive numbering 01-236 and still in progress today. The fundamental step that broadens the cultural and artistic path of Francesco Alpigiano takes place in 1999 with the winning of the sculpture competition organized by the Costantino Nivola Foundation.

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