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Negating the conception of sculpture as physical weight and solid mass, Lorenzetti
concentrates on his personal ideas of volume, light and space, imbuing the sheet of
metal, chosen as a plane of creative invention, with a sense of delicate lightness. The metal bends, opening up in cracks and breaths, characterized by the contiguity or contrast of concave and convex curves capable of harbouring light and shadow.
Lorenzetti’s form develops through simplifications of the visual image, like the wing
encapsulated in Winged, which epitomizes the work of the late 1980s, when the artist pictorially veiled the surface with a thin layer of graphite in order to restore softness to a whole that floats “between the folds in the air”. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)