Gipsoteca

GIPSOTECA

In 1994 Andrea Morruchio produced a photographic series based on Antonio Canova’s works, conserved within the Gipsoteca of the Museo Canoviano in Possagno. Morucchio’s black and white photographs intensify this “strongly anti-realistic” technique - A. Corboz, 1979, which extends like a network over the surfaces of Canova’s bodies. These points are the participatory instruments of that “invisible geometry” of proportional and relational harmony amongst the parts with which, through a process of sublimation - “sublime execution”, Canova realized his sculptures.

The formal and compositional aspects are never disconnected from the content and from the emotional participation of the subject, whether it is a place, an event, a person or a work of art, as in GIPSOTECA. In this photographic series, realized in 1994 at the Canova plaster sculptures Museum in Possagno the concentration on sculptural values and the formal relationship between the parts, achieved through measured doses of light and shade, are united by an emotional interpretation of the sculpture itself. Like a slow motion vision, in fact, through the succession of takes based on a progressive gap between frames, the artist manages to concentrate on the emotional and structural “nodes” of his subjects, emphasizing the state of desperation, pain, complicity, and harmony - from the Pietà to Le Grazie, to the Amore e Psiche stanti. Likewise, by means of a sapient use of perspective, he establishes new links and relationships between the sculptures, held tight within the invisible mesh of an alienating silence made of imperceptible dialogues.