◈ CANCELLO SOLARE, Arnaldo Pomodoro, 1987
The sculpture is a circular structure 5 m in diameter opening into two
semicircles weighing 25 hundredweights each. Its design was completed
in 1987, while creation and installation concluded in 1993. The sculpture,
positioned at the entrance to Ca' del Bosco, was commissioned by
Maurizio Zanella, who engaged sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro to make a
gate that would be an emblematic entry into the vineyards and the whole
estate.
This circular gate, with its arrow-like, outward pointing rays, is a symbolic
consecration of the rapport between wine and art: a huge sun because, as
Zanella states, “from the sun comes the real nourishment of the grape,
whose own rays warm and illuminate the gentle Ca' del Bosco hills.”
◈ EROI DI LUCE, Igor Mitoraj, 1991
It is a sculpture of a severed head with the insert of a veiled head. It repersents the artist's cruel yet sincere vision: “I don't think of the observer”, says Mitoraj, “I express myself through fragments, because the unseen part is much more important”.
His statue remains a luminous fragment, set apart from the cellar. Framing it is the sky, which at times seems to “light up” the white of the marble.
◈ ELOGIO DELL'OMBRA, Bruno Romeda, 1994
This sculpture, located in Ca' del Bosco's little lake, seems to serve as framework for predominating nature but at the same time, in a play of watery reflections, interlaces with the leaves and geometrically changes one's view of the place. A feeling of lightness contrasts with the solidity of the sculture.
◈ CODICE GENETICO, Rabarama,1999
The sculpture appears to be in a condition of equilibrium or slow reawakening from a state of conscious, as well as bodily, drowsiness. The squatting figure clasps herself as she hunches in a foetal position and seems to be stretching slowly. The face evokes delicacy and a fragility of the soul that is powerfully reinforced by a very special “skin” of coloured jigsaw-puzzle pieces. This scaly epidermis harbours hidden codes and languages. It is a protecting screen, a route to be decoded or a map to be read. The pieces are a filter, separating interior from exterior, even as they outline the figure's nakedness.