Ugo Guidi, Crouched sheep (1958)

tuff, h. 36x55x31 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi

The 1958 Crouched sheep continues the way started eight years before with the Sheep and bring it to the purest and most abstracts consequences. If Guidi in 1950 tried to close the Sheep in a well-definite form, with the Crouched sheep he reaches his intentions: the legs disappear, the neck is more similar to a giraffe's neck than to a sheep's one, and this is because the animal must be similar to an oval, to a circle, then to a pure form. The body itself is not realistic, but is some oval material, but it respects the represented subject: the people observing the work must understand that they are looking to a sheep.
It is important to see that Guidi abandones the use of marble and starts to choose for his creations the tuff of Versilia, which is easier to work than marble but is also rawer, and this charachteristic is very important for the artistic intensions of Ugo Guidi. We can also see that the representation of the wool is not longer left to the circle-scales of the preceding work, but is left to the tuff itself, which creates the "wool-effect" with his holes.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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