cesare callegari - #5 – 2013

IT SYMBOLIZES THE MAN THAT, WITHOUT HIS OWN PERSONALITY, TRIES EVERYDAY NEW COMBINATIONS OF MOODS TO SHOW HIMSELF AT HIS BEST.

PSYCHOLOGIST COMMENT:
«I’m exactly what people expect. I live depending on others. I became everything you want. Idon’t exist, I’m not.»

ARTIST’S COMMENT:
You’re feeling pity for him, for his life split by the various looks that his face is able to assume, between stances and scripts. Poor fell ow! What an effort to join together mixed up identity pieces! ... by the way..., why are you with him?

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“IF A CRASH TEST DUMMY COULD CHOOSE: 9 VISIONS”

9 Visions/9 Plays: The project is about the loss of importance of the manhood in our late times: i’ve made quite my way through that, based on my experience matched up with the medical opinion of a psychologist and sex therapist, doctor Raffaele Bifulco. he followed the creation of each sculpture and compared them with his working experience, taking concepts his patients express and giving to them his medical view. 

That’s why every sculpture comes with a medical description of the kind of manhood it represents. The common shape resulted from 2 references:

1. The movie “L’ultima donna” by director Marco Ferreri (with Gerard Depardieu and Ornella Muti), in the final scene in which depardieu cuts his penis, as to cut away the origin of all his problems.

2. the book “Il nome della rosa” by author Umberto Eco. The main character of the book claims that when the rose has passed its beauty, the only memory is its scent. In every vision you will find written all the artworks description plus size/materials/medical comment.