Misuratore

Misuratore functions as a device of sensory perception: a series of vertical structures generated from casts of the artist’s hands captured in a state of tension. Through a process of wax casting and subsequent casting in white and yellow bronze, produced at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, the forms are polished to a mirror-like finish capable of both reflecting and absorbing the surrounding space, continuing the research initiated with Hands Like Branches Touching the Sky (2024). The three sculptures—approximately 115, 130, and 170 cm in height—emerge from a base composed of sand and clay, where material stratification becomes an integral part of the sculptural process, highlighting the transformation of the manual gesture into a hybrid organism. Their differing heights also introduce an implicit system of measurement: as verticality increases, the number of fingers progressively proliferates, as if the body were expanding in relation to its perceptual capacity. The work stems from a reflection on a possible metamorphic continuity between the human and the natural world, in which the hand—the primary instrument of relation, knowledge, and orientation—fragments and multiplies until it becomes a sensor, a perceptual device directed toward what escapes immediate visibility. Verticality thus acquires a dual significance: a physical measure and, simultaneously, a mental and perceptual tension, opening the possibility of a reconfiguration of the relationship between body, space, and environment.