Untitled, 2012 | 33 x 10 x 120 cm – oxidized iron and iron

Material | Void | Light

Natural light is an essential strength, connected with time. The sun’s pathway across the sky draws a different angle every day: the change of season plays on the surface (…) like a volumetric sundial. (…) the subtle music of the light plays within the space. The porous light and shade, like the rays of sun that penetrate between the leaves on the trees – often developing into an elliptical shape. This phenomenon is due to the fact that the sun is not a point: it is like a coat of sun painted on a sheet of paper. The shade, the sun’s light and the geometry resolve in experiential phenomena. (…). A clear conception that can lead the geometry, the structure and the material to give shape to the spaces of light. Refraction, reflection, transparency (…).”

Steven Holl

Mary Pola

All at once, the need for matter, void, light among that hard, impenetrable, impressive material, such to remain defenceless.

In art, as in architecture, light is a fundamental component that makes three-dimensional perception with the shadows possible. Attributing qualities to the surface through reflections, which make them vibrant.

Just as in the case of this research, which has led me to strengthen this vibration not only through the “light” element but through the material itself; precisely using the “lamellar” element. An element that allows itself to be penetrated by the gaze and be reflected in the space communicating with it. Here describing a geometrical shape, such as the Triangle, which emerges from the material itself, from the top downwards and, on the contrary, loosing itself from the bottom upwards, it brings forth an opposite dynamic force.

The power of light attributes an expressive character to the work and the environment.

Furthermore, in sculpture as in architecture, volumes and surfaces must be modelled in a way to calibrate the impact with light, characterised by the interplay of light and shadow, often arising in a decorative dimension, created by contrasts of full areas and voids.