Ugo Riva - Motherhood
Ugo Riva - Motherhood
SKU:AIOZ002
Sculpture, D. 27
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Characteristics
Characteristics
Certificato: Yes
Materiale: other
Soggetto: Sacred art
Stile: Figurative
Description of the work
Description of the work
The iconography of maternity is linked to the subject of the Madonna and Child. It is probably one of the most popular iconographies in the entire history of art, both Western and Eastern. The Madonna and Child appears from the very beginnings of medieval painting and remains a constant subject as long as religious themes were prevalent in artistic production (that is, until the 19th century when themes inspired by everyday life began to be introduced). In this version by Ugo Riva, we have the reminiscence of a Renaissance Madonna and Child in the variant that also includes the Infant Saint John.
Ugo Riva's research has been directed, throughout his career, towards the recovery of the art of the past and its reworking according to a contemporary sensibility. In particular, Ugo Riva has always kept classical, Greek and Roman or Renaissance art in mind as a model, which he here re-presents in an elegant bas-relief of classicist taste. The language used by the artist, however, is contemporary. The form is synthetic, expressionist, and even the conception of space transcends the laws of perspective. Riva then does not fail to reconfigure his model by applying his own personal poetics of the "unfinished", leaving the surface of the bas-relief as if it were just sketched out.
Ugo Riva, a Bergamese sculptor born in 1951, in his artistic career has always focused his research towards a figurative production. Starting from the study of ancient classicism, he developed a great technique in the naturalistic rendering of subjects and anatomical precision. Later his attention shifted to contemporary sculptors such as Giacomo Manzù, Arturo Martini or Marino Marini, developing a research towards expressionist values and a poetics of the "unfinished".
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