Artwork 97 – “The Heart of the Earth” G Version

Artwork ninety-seven

"The Heart of the Earth"G Version

"Il Cuore della Terra" G Version

Year: 2023

Dimensions: h100cm

Technique: Etched and rusted steel, silicone, acrylic, mineral pigments and resin

Description of the Work “The Heart of the Earth” G Version

Contemporary art sculpture created by the artist Cesare Catania in steel, first modeled and welded, then rusted and polished. Finally enriched with details that are already colored in paste through the mixture of silicone, acrylic and mineral pigments. A geometric art sculpture that synthesizes the complexity of shapes and harmony in space in a single piece.

“The Heart of the Earth” G Version: an infinite scale of colors

A new variant was therefore born at the end of 2023, a G Version in which spherical and pyramidal solids are composed of each other, almost as if each one lived its own identity in space and, in a harmonious and orderly manner, formed a single sculpture that It defies, in the balance, the force of gravity. On this occasion the ordered shapes of the simple polygons harmonize with faces with a moving and colored surface, precisely to summarize in a single physical work of art how the Heart of the Earth punctually represents energy, color but also order and disorder at the same time. This last juxtaposition of two oxymorons in a single sculpture undoubtedly assumes a harmonious and elegant behavior despite the contrasting nature of the two states of being. This ability to combine contrasting elements is typical of the art of Cesare Catania, who loves to highlight how reality is often neither black nor white, but an infinite scale of intermediate colours. We find other examples of alternation of this variety of intermediate scales, again in the art of Cesare Catania, for example within the theme of Harlequin, depicted in the art of the Italian painter in different versions (in that case Harlequin, comic character and dramatic at the same time, it symbolizes for the author the human race, with all its facets and caricatures).

The Artistic Background

This G Version represents a further evolution of a theme already started by the author in 2012. In fact, the first version of the sculpture of the same name dates back to that year, on that occasion made of coral red wood, a color that showed all the intensity and emotional charge of a sculpture that symbolized the energy of our planet. Over the years, the rough shape of the first A Version has given way to more geometric shapes, confined in space in a more orderly manner (B Version and C Version) without however losing its original meaning.
In the middle we also find a digital processing, the D Version, which ferries the sculpture into the metaverse through a short short film which in less than a minute gives the B Version spatial harmony that brings the sculpture closer to kinetic art.
In the following years we find the E Version and the F Version, two versions that summarize in a single diptych the statuesque presence of an ordered geometry on one side and the explosive energetic charge of acrylic colors on the other.

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Artwork Title: “The Heart of the Earth – C Version”
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