Arturo Martini, Fallen Pegasus (1943)

wood
Vicenza, Banca Popolare di Vicenza

This Fallen Pegasus by Arturo Martini is a model for monument dedicated to Arturo Ferrarin, an airman from Thiene (a town in Northern Italy).
Pegasus, the mythological horse with wings, becomes symbol of the aviator died during a plane crash. It reminds some compositions by Guidi, for its solid shapes and its absence of inutile details. The body is laying on the ground, the wings are rough-hewed. The posterior legs are kicking in a position which is not natural and express the strenght of the animal. There is a different approach for the anterior legs, which are thinner than the posterior. The neck expresses all the sorrow for the fall, metaphor of the aviator's fall.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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University of Pisa