Artwork 94 – Time

The third of the 5 sculptures is entitled “Time”. After having partially captured the importance of time in the second sculpture of the collection entitled “The Canals”, now Catania wants to pay homage to the time of Venice with a sculpture dedicated to him. The value of time for an eternal city like Venice is inestimable. A city where everything seems still and imperturbable for more than a thousand years, a city that is alive and at the same time eternal.

For this reason the author decides to ideally break down one of the sundials in Piazza San Marco and reassemble it on one of the 5 moons by inlaying it on pear wood.

“Il Tempo” is aesthetically halfway between a sundial and a chronograph. The different inserts made with different materials in the circular crown present between the two steel spheres almost seem to suggest that they can rotate on themselves just like the bezel of a watch would. Also present here as in the Canali are the tips on the external hemisphere, this time covered with a natural braided rope. The meaning of the rope, often used in the past by Catania (see for example the works entitled “La Gabbia” or “La Bocca dell’Etna”), in this case means the positive caging of a state of being in the present . In this specific case, the cage is the expression of a state of temporal stillness that characterizes the Venetian city, so dynamic but equally so the same for more than a thousand years.