2015
marble
100 x 110 x 88 cm

relocated in a public space in Rozzano (Milan, Italy) in 2023

Superchio series is a reflection Apuan’s landscape (Tuscany, Italy), precisely on their mountains, famous for their white marble, extracted without regulation, leaving them always bit more empty. Such reflections become suggestions to deal with the sculpture and a history’s full material as marble in a contemporary way. If Michelangelo Buonarroti advice to the good artist to don’t do nothing else that keep the cover (superchio, in Italian) of the marble, because in its inside there is already enclosed the shape of the sculpture; I keep material only inside of the stone, leaving the cover intact: the sculpture is always enclosed in the marble, but it coincides with emptiness.

In the summer of 2023, Superchio II finally found a permanent home in Rozzano, Italy, at the openly accessible Fattoria San Giuda.