Perdita di stato
plaster
2020
“Two sculptural portrayals that
highlight the volumes of each face of the mountain, but through the
collapsing of their mass. In fact, in creating them, the
“real” forms impressed into a rubber cast – negative
imprint of the model – were reproduced without the aid of the support found in sculptural practice that
offers dimensional rigidity to the mould. Borrowing the
technique of mountain casts – dating back to the early
twentieth century – Pugno first constructed the portrait
of the mountain’s sides through observing hundreds of
images and then purposefully directed the subsidence
of their forms”.
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