wood spirit
FRANCESCO LUCATELLI – 2023
The concept of the installation is the millenary relationship between the Human Being and the Forest. The work in its entirety represents the spirit of the Forest seen in an anthropomorphic way. The central part of the work is a focus on the encounter between Man and Nature. A trace of the DNA of the forest that emphasizes the millenary exchange of knowledge between the two parts. In the central area in the foreground a tree, with a small hominid at its feet, contemplating the magnificence. The difference in size between the two parts emphasizes the respect we owe to the entire natural world.
The rest of the work, legs, feet, shoulders and head, is made with different types of wood recovered on site, trying to render the musculature, the underskin of this anthropomorphic figure, as if the artist wanted to go beyond a simple representation of the exterior side, trying to enter instead into the depths, investigating the relationship of interdependence between man and nature.
