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Patinated bronze, casting
24,5*10,5 cm, H-41 cm, 2022
In the sculpture called “La Luna”, the author captured an elegant flamenco performer. The movements of the dancer are graceful and smooth, the main expressiveness is concentrated in the position of her hands, which is especially characteristic of Spanish dance.
Looking at the sculpture and hearing its name, one of the most famous poems by Federico Garcia Lorca “Romance de la luna, luna”, which opens his collection “Romancero gitano”, immediately comes to mind.
The moon came to the forge
with her skirt of white, fragrant flowers.
The young boy watches her, watches.
The boy is watching her.
In the electrified air
the moon moves her arms
and points out, lecherous and pure,
her breasts of hard tin.
Flee, moon, moon, moon.
If the gypsies were to come,
they would make with your heart
white necklaces and rings.
Young boy, leave me to dance.
When they come, the gypsies
will find you upon the anvil
with closed eyes.
(Translated by Helen Gunn)
Using the metaphor of a dream, the poet hints to the reader about the death of the little hero. The boy is not afraid of the moon - he is afraid for her, and the moon itself, detached and alien, did not come for the child, she warns him. Perhaps the boy's heart did not contain all the beauty and mystery presented to him, and he died of longing and happiness. Eternal tart sadness, like air, swaddles this deceptively harmonious world of a lonely moon, a lonely child, lonely gypsies.
This mysterious note can also be felt in the Aramare Vecchio sculpture. The flamenco dancer, who appears before the viewer at the peak of her smooth bend, is still seen as quite aloof. It's like she's not from this world. Her half-closed eyelids and melting dance plastic refer to the mysterious images of Lorca's poem.
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