Pedrazzoli's Monumental

The work indicated with the title "Silence", or "La dormiente", is partly in Pietra serena (the base) and partly in white marble veined with pink. Here Carlo Cerati engages with a patheticism that has deep roots in Italian art. His mastery gives the figure near death a force worthy of the greatest sculptors. If it is true that the bed seems to absorb in a definitive embrace the sparse features of the character, however there is a tremor in the marble folds that seems to allude to a distant (yet real) awakening.