HANDS

ALESSANDRO PAVONE – 2012

The rough hands of the people who lived and worked in this land in the past are the subject of Pavone’s monumental sculpture, who with determination and speed for days ran the blade of his chainsaw over the trunks, creating three large hands in natural wood, now entrusted to the forest and the cycles of the seasons.

They are hands that tell stories through a suggestive and particular gestural vocabulary, that caress the sky, collect the rain and the sun, wave to the trees around them and invite the people who observe them.

Abandoned to the forces of nature and defeated by the weight of the material, they are placed on their backs, showing the palm that bears the signs of life like the trunks they are made of.