Pierluigi Rolando - Parsifal

Features

Artist:  Pierluigi Rolando (1935-2017)

Artwork title:  Parsifal

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Human Figures

Artistic technique:  Volume-Sculpture

Technical specification:  Mixed Technique

Description : Parsifal

Mixed material sculpture: the body is in metal, the head in terracotta. An internationally renowned designer, Pierluigi Rolando, graduated in textile engineering and established himself primarily in the cashmere textile industry in the family business, creates garments that he himself defines as “cashmere sculptures modeled on the human body”. At the beginning of the 1970s he moved to design with collections for active sports and contributed to the birth of the Fila. In his free time he alternates sculptural interests with pictorial interests; invents figures in expanded polystyrene and collages in wood, cardboard and various materials. But sculpture has always been his great passion: for forty years art has been "lived hysterically in the spare time", but since 1993 Rolando has chosen to devote himself entirely to it. Using different materials such as terracotta, recycled iron, wood, proposes various subjects, with grotesque faces with tense and suffering expressions, strong and caricatured hands, symbols of ancient and heroic deeds of a distant era, characters of religions and mythology. His visionary universe is populated by warriors, leaders and emperors, horse-totems and imaginary creatures .; his art is suggestive, fairytale, enchanted. Also this Parsifal, the warrior of the cycle of the Knights of the Round Table, appears in his strength and powerful prowess, almost fake, solid in the armed body in metal, fragile in the terracotta head.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 189
Width: 60
Depth: 48

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