Geometries (1984) cm 13,5x80x9,5 – Ferro e bronzo

Dady Orsi is a connoisseur and collector of antiques, although his taste leads him to recognize the aesthetic potential of even the most practical objects. In the mid-eighties he designed and commissioned an assemblage sculpture where a Renaissance bronze and an antique cannonball are connected by a golden triangle. The iron base and gilded brass triangle are made by a blacksmith. This geometric-spatial construction is a real intellectual tour de force: the surface occupied by the triangle that joins the cannonball and the antique bronze is determined in such a way that its area is equivalent to the spherical surface of the cannonball. This tension towards the divine proportione is one of the elements that links the artist to Renaissance culture, especially to the reflection on the relationship between man and space, of which this sculpture is an allegory. But equally renaissance is the workshop practice that leads Orsi to cultivate the collaboration with the artisans. It was in those years that the Anachronism movement emerged, recovering elements of ancient imagery and technical processes of Renaissance art to reconnect with the mythical element of living, a tension always shared by Orsi.