Leoncillo

Collezione Privata, Milano

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. The colors of the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate.
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“Una scultura non la penso già finita, farla non diventa una esecuzione. C’è all’inizio soltanto il senso di ciò che dovrà essere, quello che dovrà esprimere. È nell’agitazione della creta che si aggiunge, che cresce nell’aria, nella sua interna dinamica che essa cerca di definirsi. Di ritrovarsi.
A volte la scultura riesce ad essere, qualche volta no o delle parti soltanto. Resta allora informa, sconvolta, una emozione che si è conclusa in una idea (immagine)”

 

 “I don’t envision a sculpture already finished, so making it does not because execution. At the beginning there is only the sense of what it should be, what it should express. It is in the agitation of the clay that is added, that grows in the air, in its inner dynamic, that it attempts to take on definition, to find itself again.
Sometimes the sculpture manages to be, sometimes not, sometimes only in parts. Then it remains without form, an emotion that has not found its conclusion in an idea (image)”

Leoncillo, 1957 (in Piccolo Diario)