2011 – THE SCULPTURE – MAN IN CHERGE

THE SCULPTURE

Today the first sculpture by Bucchi, which is the fruit of methodical patience and high figurative quality, is seeing the light of day, after two years of meticulous work. Its realisation required the combination of manual dexterity and technology. The result is a protean photofit, where the roots of the artist’s physiognomy, carved into aluminium, spread figurative hints. This multiple profile, built through a selection of overlapping hints, is centred on a “prime suspect”, namely Danilo Bucchi himself. A three-dimensional self-portrait, where the author describes himself through his posture, his clothes, his hat. And where one detail, the charge on his back, becomes a denotative and connotative key, a sort of dynamic logo reinforcing the bond between the work and the observer.

Gianluca Marziani