Artwork ninety-five
"Harlequin"
Year: 2023
Dimensions: 110cm x 90cm x 90cm
Technique: Rusty Steel, Pear Wood, Murano Glass, Murano Mirror, Natural Rope
Description of the Artwork "Harlequin"
“Harlequin” is the fourth of the 5 sculptures belonging to the collection entitled “The Other Side of the Moon”.
The Artist’s residence
Cesare Catania moved to Palazzo Donà dalle Rose during his personal exhibition to produce new sculptures and new works of art.
The artist residency gives the artist the opportunity to be influenced by the city that hosts him. In this way, Cesare Catania’s new artistic production is a continuation of his poetics which for the occasion will mix with the artistic influences of one of the capitals of art history.
Catania uses, among others, materials found locally, mixing them together with steel, silicone and acrylic, to give life to a new collection called “The other side of the Moon” and which is connected to the previous projects developed by the Donà Foundation from the Roses while remaining adherent to his own geometric and eclectic sculptural art.
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“The Character of Harlequin"
The fourth of the 5 sculptures is entitled “Harlequin”. Already in the past the Italian sculptor has given ample space in his artistic production to the character of Harlequin, a comic and dramatic character at the same time.
Cesare Catania is fascinated by the coexistence of sadness and comedy in the theatrical character of Harlequin, so much so that over the years he dedicated several paintings to him (“Harlequin in the Land of the Giants”, “Harlequins C Version”, “Gli Harlequins” Feelings and Emotions, etc. …). This is actually the first sculpture that the author dedicates to the harlequin character and he creates it by expertly mixing silicone, acrylic and mineral pigments with Murano mirrors and rusty steel.
The natural black rope, as in the previous sculpture entitled “Time”, characterizes a sort of temporal immobility in which Harlequin and the city of Venice are captured: a character and a city that have been the same for millennia and are so current despite their age.
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The Cultural Background
In front of the crystal belt, a second ring stands out, made with the same pear wood used in the “Sestieri”, precisely to enhance the charm of a territory that has been able to base its origins on wood (all the foundations of the city in fact they are made with this material that is so alive and so eternal).
A phrase conceived by the author is carved on the wooden belt which reads “The Venetian Canals: the place where water stops time” (Cesare Catania)
This is how the artist describes the water of Venice. A forest of canals where the water stops time, unchanged for centuries… a place in Venice that has never changed over the years.
And precisely the charm given by immutability over time leads the author to define among the “Moons” of the collection the first sculpture that also pays homage to time, positioning black and white diamonds in the external steel spokes, almost as if they were the tips of a clock. In this, the Canali can be considered the first sculptural clock by Cesare Catania
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