Ignazio Fresu
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Ignazio Fresu (born 1957) is an Italian contemporary sculptor. He creates his artworks using waste products such as pieces of old metal, polystyrene and packaging collected from bins, dumps and scrap metal yards.
[edit] Biography
Ignazio Fresu was born in Cagliari (Sardinia), in 1957. In 1975 he went to live in Florence where he attended the Academy of the Fine Arts and where his career started. He shows his works regularly in many towns in Italy and abroad.
[edit] The work
The poor materials used by Ignazio Fresu represent "the process through which beauty is revealed, the world of appearance and impermanency. A world in which reality is shown daily, suspended between birth and death, thereby constituting a space for a possible experience of being." Through its fragility, precariousness and perishability, Ignazio Fresu seeks the intrinsic beauty which permeates transitoriness, thereby recognising its aesthetic value.
By using openly vulnerable materials and through the medium of oxidisation, rusting, opaqueness, fading, and other forms of deterioration through which objects are tired and worn out, dehydrated and about to crumble, Fresu is returning to authentic values, in open contrast with the varnished or plastic-coated world around us.
Ignazio Fresu's art was influenced by some artistic movements of the 20th century, but also by some philosophers, mainly by Heraclitus (ancient philosophers) and by Gianni Vattimo (contemporary philosophers).
