But the allusions of the sculpture proliferate further, beyond Western art. ITALIAN SONNET alludes to the form of the yin-yang symbol. It alludes to the Japanese Zen garden with its stones “floating” in a pool of combed sand. And like the stones of the Zen garden that mean to represent mountains, ITALIAN SONNET is a small object that represents monumental ideas. > It is the poetic richness of ITALIAN SONNET that makes it one of the great sculptures of this century, and one of the great spiritual works of art of any century. With the simplest of means, this creation transcends matter and ascends to the realm of the spirit.
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ITALIAN SONNET, Sculpture, Concept Model
“Art is justified, as man is justified, by the faculty of forming ideas...” - Kenneth Clark. > ITALIAN SONNET, small enough to be held in the palm of the hand, represents the precarious binding of opposites: the eternal (rocks) with the temporal (wood, twine), nature (rocks) with culture (dowel, twine and the act of manipulation of these materials), male with female, light with dark. ITALIAN SONNET is a universal icon that may well be considered by future generations as one of the most important sculptures of the twenty-first century. The piece is now available for purchase directly from the artist.
