Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti, HOMAGE TO CAPOCOLONNA
The young artist made his Grand Tour through Italy and, like many famous poets or painters of the past, was armed only with his notebook. The final result was a sculpture called upon to make these sketches three-dimensional, reclaiming them and returning the monuments to us in their linear, as well as formal, essentiality. Here the tribute was to Capocolonna, in the Crotone area of Calabria, and to the column from which it takes its name, the only surviving column of the Temple of Hera Lacinia. The evocation of our cultural heritage in Edolo was placed in relation to the nearby bell tower of San Giovanni, as if to weave a relationship in which the monumentality of the bell tower, all mass, dialogues with the lightness, all form, of a fragile but persistent past, represented by this column.
THE ARTWORK
Homage to CapoColonna, 2015, iron, 430h x 125 x 120 cm