Ugo Guidi, Sat figure (1956)

terracotta, h. 42,5 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi

This is one of the first Guidi's portraits where the body is represented accordint go a personal interpretation. The 1956 Sat figure does not respect the real anatomic proportions, and if we have already seen some "escape" in the Adolescent, here we notice that this "escape" is getting more tangible. The figure, a woman, presents some anatomic particulars which are not proportioned. First of all her hips, that are widened in a non-natural way (and this is a call to the theme of motherhood). So, she is not a fat woman, because the body is that of a thin woman: Ugo Guidi wants his figure to evoke some thinkings, or better he wants to make evident the interpretations of interior states modelling the exterior parts.
To make the observer more attentive, Guidi make the support on which the figure is sat disappear: we do not understand if the woman is sat on a chair, on a stool, on a bench or what else, because we must notice and observe with attention the subject and not the support.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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