Artwork Ninety-six
"Stardust"
“…and when I observe that infinite picture I see absolute colours: below an uncertain and wavy blue, in the middle a dark and statuesque green, above an intense blue streaked with white. In the distance an island, where in the morning emotions are born and calcify on incandescent crystals. It’s a moment that separates day from night… Time here passes imperturbably and eternally asynchronous. The passing of life, which perhaps in this place more than in others, will always be the same. We, imperceptible stardust, harmoniously floating in a calm and eternal ether.”
(Cesare Catania – Venice 01.VIII.23”)
Year: 2023
Dimensions: 120cm x 100cm x 100cm
Technique: Rusty Steel, Pear Wood, Murano Glass
Description of the work of art "Stardust"
The sculpture is part of the collection entitled “The Other Side of the Moon” and created in July 2023 during his artist residency in Venice.
The artist residency gives the sculptor the opportunity to be influenced by the city that hosts him. This new collection by Cesare Catania is the continuation of his poetics which for the occasion is mixed with the artistic influences of the island of Murano.
In fact, Catania works in Murano for the first time with the typical glass of the island itself (what he himself calls “incandescent crystals”) and harmonizes it with a material dear to him such as rusty steel, giving life to a sculpture that denotes a strong contamination with the surrounding artistic fabric while remaining adherent to his own geometric and eclectic sculptural art.
To give even greater character to the feelings felt by the Artist during the artistic creation phase, a text conceived and engraved by the Author himself on segments of pear wood, a text developed while observing the island of Murano from the living room window (the one which he himself calls the “infinite picture”) of his artist residency at Donà dalle Rose Palace.
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“Wood Engraving"
“…and when I observe that infinite picture I see absolute colours: below an uncertain and wavy blue, in the middle a dark and statuesque green, above an intense blue streaked with white.
In the distance an island, where in the morning emotions are born and calcify on incandescent crystals.
It’s a moment that separates day from night… Time here passes imperturbably and eternally asynchronous. The passing of life, which perhaps in this place more than in others, will always be the same. We, imperceptible stardust, harmoniously floating in a calm and eternal ether.”
(Cesare Catania – Venice 01.VIII.23”)
These are the words that the Italian artist engraves on the circular crown of pear wood which slightly precedes the circular crown in Murano glass.
A detail that not only embellishes the sculpture but also makes it unique, both for the technique used and for the poetry written and sculpted by Cesare Catania during his stay in the City of Venice.
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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 Cesare Catania
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