FRANCESCO FLORIO - Italy
Contacts: francescof48@gmail.com
Modigliani
The Pirate
Sculpture on Trachyte cm 12 x 40 x 8
sculpture in Tube cm 40 x 60 x 30
Four faces
The warrior and the griffin
sculpture in Tufocm 28 x 40
sculpture in tuff cm 16 x 35 x 25
Mammoth
Koi Carp
tuff sculpture cm 40 x 30 x 21
sculpture in Tuff cm 35 x 60 x 35
The Critique
The sculptures of Francesco Florio
The art of Francesco Florio originates from the intense and visceral relationship he has with Nature.
His sculptures find their meaning in water, more precisely in the Gorges of Civita Castellana, a stream that surrounds the tuff base of this ancient town in the Viterbo area, which serves as a backdrop to his work.
The stones he finds in the water are sculpted according to the inspiration that the shape of the stone suggests to him at that moment.
Almost like a Zen sculptor, his works find their balance in those places.
If one were to take a walk along the banks of the stream, the visitor would see primitive heads sculpted in tuff emerging between a rock and an aquatic plant, perfectly in harmony with the environment... and they imply being part of a millenary continuum.
The art of Francesco Florio belongs to that current of "Primitivism" which is not about reproducing what our Paleolithic ancestors
did but the search for a formal purity, sometimes naive, that pursues a millenary vision of the cosmos and nature.
Claudio Giulianelli