The artistic project of The Wandering Sculpture, which has now come to its IV edition, was born from a consideration about the meaning of Italo Calvino’s reflections on lightness, that he considered an intrinsic value of the work of art, the reflection of a way of seeing the world.
Lo Greco’s sculpture attracts the attention, it forces it to caress shapes, makes forgotten feelings revive, wandering like sparkling waves of insubstantial and wandering foam of the Sicilian sea in full summer, in front of which the artist imagines strange dances of women with sensual curves.
Sculptural material conveys the sense of the moment lived in an aoristic space (without a place and a time). It urges to savour the emotion one feels in front of those beings that, in spite of their considerable mass, seem to be weightless. Beings for whom even a happy or melancholic mood is unexpected, for whom comedy is a body’s invisible essence and not an expression of it.
Trying to combine his shapes of evanescent sensuality, Lo Greco tells the bodies’ hope to live their moment of glory, he tries to give an expanding spatial dimension to human shapes with unpredictable expressive capacities. Wondering between unpredictable beings, the artist recites a poem dedicated to life, to the world reduced to a body’s materiality.
Wandering Sculpture is thus the artistic result of an incessant wandering of the senses and of the spirit, looking for shapes of a questionable but suggestive materiality, physical but imaginative at the same time.
Wandering Sculpture tries to involve the spectator’s expressive, cognitive and imaginative talents, in order to suggest him that it is in the very lightness of the material’s weight that the imponderable weight of life has to be found.