What characterizes and binds the works of Viola Granucci is a continuous search for individuality, understood not so much as an investigation of the multiple aspects assumed by the individual, but as an analysis of those fundamental principles that contrast and interpenetrate defining the individual himself, constantly poised between balance and fall, between conquest and loss of one’s identity.
Stefano Masi
Conceptual description of the art works
I am a professional sculptress since many years, raised with my hands in clay in my childhood, learning step by step art techniques also from the artistic experience of my father, Sandro Granucci, a well-known artist in the area of Chianti, where our Art studio Atelier is located. Chianti, besides being my birthplace, is an integral part of my artistic DNA, in fact I have developed over the years of academic studies and artistic work a special interest in bronze and terracotta, both typical materials of this area, one of the most poetic places in Tuscany.
My art works find inspiration throughout all time periods reaching from the Art of Etruscan Bronze Tuscan, to the elegance and beauty of Florentine Renaissance Art to aspects of the Minimalism of Contemporary Art.
Viola Granucci
Among my most representative sculptures there are circles with figures that are inside. As a symbol and as a shape, the circle blends perfectly with the concept of balance of the male and female principles as it represents the link between these two polarities. There is a reference, in many of these works, to the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine genius of the Renaissance.
Among my other representative sculptures are the stairs with the figures going up and down. The stairs can be simple, double, crossed or even invisible, to create sort of imaginary paths. The staircase is used in certain rites as a symbol of a communication bridge between Earth and Heaven, between the human and the divine. Its pegs are expressly considered as representations of progressive states that a human being goes through during his ongoing existence.
I developed the concept of the evolution of being in a higher identity in different works, where the same character is represented several times through a segment of temporal sequence where being expresses its various stages of evolutionary transformation.
Dialogue between the soul and the mind
“Who seeks with curiosity discovers that this is already in itself wonderful.” M.C. ESCHER ...
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Conceptual description of the art works
I am a professional sculptress since many years, raised with my hands in clay in...
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