Iconic,
altar like trophies, rise up from forgotten television sets. Stereotypical
cacti, gallows and dead, stripped and bullet riddled trees serve as coat racks
for cowboy paraphernalia.
As
a teenager I was attracted to the type of Spaghetti Westerns that criticized
and demythologized the conventions of traditional cowboy movies. I was
interested in the idea of a foreign culture translating Americana and targeting
filmed machismo through staged brawling and balletic violence.
These
sculpted still lifes serve in memoriam to those past films that were already
based and misplaced on the mythological cowboy in American literature, retold
and rendered in excessive Technicolor on the wide screen.... and eventually cut
down to size and replayed over and over again on television.
Wagon
wheels, boots and spurs are among the remnants that serve as bleached out
memories of adolescent fantasies.
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| Senza Cavalier, porcelain, 13 inches high, 2014 |
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| Albero Morto, ceramic, 17 inches high,2013 |
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| Giustizia, ceramic, 17 inches high, 2013 |
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| Natura Morta, ceramic, 17 inches high, 2013 |
