This refined work in paper and iron introduces us to one of the characteristics of Brunivo Buttarelli's art: the juxtaposition of very different materials which, treated with sensitivity and extraordinary manufacturing skill, create unusual surfaces.
Here the paper, superimposed on a metal net, produces the effect of the shell of a prehistoric animal, but the combinations created by the sculptor can be various, such as wood and marble or wood and iron, as in Primigenius, exhibited in the atrium of the Museum.
The fact that a disused wire mesh is used here, therefore a relic of the industrial world, provides a further line of interpretation of Buttarelli's production: that same respect for nature that has always made him use dead tree trunks, stripped of their rotting, for his wooden sculptures. Even the work exhibited next to it, Naples - Buenos Aires round trip created as an element for the scenography of a concert, was made using only recycled materials.
The stratification of materials is another of the characteristic traits of Buttarelli's work and refers to his past of research and archaeological excavations (in the 1970s he was one of the promoters of the local Center of Palethnological Studies and collaborated with the Tridentino Museum of National History creating stratigraphies, plans and drawings of excavations) which led him to develop an imagery that has its roots in archaic times and which makes Time the great protagonist of his sculpture.
An original stratification of times and spaces between home, nature and workshop that can also be found in his large house-atelier in Vicoboneghisio.
Loan from the Artist's collection
