Armillary Egg
Wood
60cm x 50cm x 50cm
2016
Today’s extraordinary scientific research has led us to learn more and more about the evolution of humans, observing and studying with immense dedication the phenomena that generated the entire cosmos. The egg, a natural element adopted by the most ancient civilisations on earth, with different meanings: ‘from fertility to the resurrection of Christ’, still accompanies us today as a symbol of the universe and sidereal mechanisms.
The work proposed here draws its form from past astronomical instruments, capable of mapping celestial bodies and studying their dynamics, allowing its structure to become an evocative image of the form itself. It is also associated with the iconology and symbolism of the feminine, as it is the woman who, by producing the ovum that will be fertilised, will give rise to new life.
The characteristic defined by the empty space between its armillary elements gives the observer the possibility of ‘looking into it’ and ‘seeing through it’: that is to say, an effect of transparency is created, capable of involving the spectator and the surrounding environment in a continuous interaction. The characteristic of this ‘boundless egg’ has the quality of unveiling the cosmogonic mystery, imagining a collaboration with myth and the feeling that we are all participating in the sense of creation.
The sculpture, in its essentiality and simplicity, refers back to revolutionary iconography: we are all under the same sky, all citizens of a world without real borders, to be cared for, to belong to, to be defended and inhabited with awareness and conscience. The egg becomes an invitation and celebration of the journey, which is in turn a synthesis and instrument for dialogue between peoples and people. This sculpture therefore has the significance for the observer of projecting himself in an imaginary terrestrial and astral journey, in a cosmic dimension of osmosis between populations in their different traditions and ways of thinking and living.
Elsewhere is a mirror in the negative. The traveller recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will not have.
Italo Calvino, 1972, The Invisible Cities
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