La storia di una biglia zaffiro
The story of a sapphire marble

La storia di una biglia zaffiro
The story of a sapphire marble

Site-specific installation for Madonna dei Piani in San Benedetto Belbo (CN)
Graphite and frottage on cotton prepared with acrylic chalk 6x12m, graphite on board 40x30x14cm, plastic, blue led 2022

Photos by Davide D’Ambra

The Sibyl of instability, with one foot on a ball and the other on a boat with a broken mast, welcomes the spectators announcing the human situation of transience. The center of the church presents a hexagon that narrates the story of a sphere, its birth and growth, in relation to a human figure. This sphere is the idea of life itself, a plague but also the only point from which we grasp hope. At the foot of the altar the representation of the artist as Saint Sebastian transfixed by pencils with the sapphire sphere glowing in his hand. This figure lives temporally between a child playing with a black marble and an old man who holds it now grown out of all proportion as Atlas held the World. The inscription on the scale: “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe”, related to the concept of belief, closes the artwork.