Paolo Porelli: Divinities & Idols, 2018
Divinities & Idols is composed of a prolific group of complementary figures that chaotically fill the void between the two opposed poles of existence, a fluctuating series of divinities or idols, depending on whether they conduct us towards or away from ourselves. From another point of view, they are a grand exercise in metamorphoses, transience and relativity of the creative process. A constant of the variations that propel the sculptures towards a continuous regeneration in an attempt to establish the stroboscopic range of human essence. It is like participating in an ancient “Commedia dell’arte” in which the mask that reflects the true semblance of which we are made.
Works produced exclusively with slip-cast plaster moulds from historic figurines that play with multiples as a pretext to realize a transformation and arrive at a “sculptural object” that is both individual and autonomous but where one continues to sense the matrix of the standard-issue mould not made by the artist. Starting from a pre-existent impersonal statuette provoked in me a desire to contaminate the subject, through the concept of creative material, trespassing in historical and interior space concentrates in temporary images to then disintegrate anew in pure material. A ready-made image, an idea of the figure that can serve to give birth to a new genesis that was the point of departure of this project.
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- Divinities & Idols, 2018, slipped, glazed terracotta, overglaze, in-glaze luster, luster, decals, 25cm H max
