Santa Sofia ‘93, 1993

Bronze casting, 9,5x29x29 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

In 1993, for the 32nd edition of the Campigna Prize, Mauro Staccioli’s intervention in Santa Sofia in Romagna marked a new phase in the prize with the birth of an artistic itinerary that started in the historic center of the town and then branched out along the Bidente River Park. Here the artist chooses a primary form, the circle, to give life to a creation with a strong impact: three large discs that rise above the viewer and exploit the slopes of the ground to generate the idea of an uncertain anchorage to the ground and precarious stability. By combining a sense of heaviness and lightness, balance and instability, staticity and movement, Staccioli achieves at the same time an alienating optical effect and a result of great integration between sculpture and the natural environment.

© Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Insitute, Roma. Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli.
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