Ugo Guidi, Winner horse (1966)

bronze, h. 24x29x7 cm
Barcellona (Spain), Sports Museum

This is one of the most famous and elegant works by Ugo Guidi. The Winner horse is a bronze realization sculpted in 1966 and is conserved in the Sports Museum of Barcelona, but a copy is present in the Museo Ugo Guidi in Forte dei Marmi.
This work is very different from the Frisky horse sculpted three years before. Now the line becomes refined, elegant. The horse acquires a very curve line: the horse must communicate the idea of speed, agility, nimbleness and victory. The horse is not symbol of strenght as the Frisky horse but is symbol of lightness and agility.
Moreover, this is one of the first works in which the rider appear: in this case, the rider is very thin, maybe he is a jockey. Between the horse and the jockey there is a strong bond, so they are almost an unique mass, because their relationship is indissoluble: the horse could not win without rider and the rider could not win without horse.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
Onlus


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