Ugo Guidi, Head (1961)
terracotta, h. 27,5x21,5x19 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi
The
Head is a portrait but now the proportions are almos totally lacking, and all the composition is a personal study which wants to represent the primitive: it seems to look at a "statua-stele" from Lunigiana, a region in the province of Massa Carrara. The forehead is occuping the superior half of the face, while the inferior half is almost a "triangle" putted into the forehead and in which Guidi inserts the eyes, two different almonds dug into the stone, the nose and the mouth. The hair is not present and the face seems to be a circle: Guidi wants again to describe an element as a pure shape.