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It all started when an Etruscan bronze votive figurine came face-to-face with a Baroque Jesus in gilt bronze...
This juxtapposition—or 'confrontation', as it seemed at the time—transformed the objects from Antique artefacts (both documents and monuments of art historical value) into 'actors' in an allegorical play.
Body language, the space between the figures, the empty white stage onto which subtle shaddows anchor the figures in a 'real' space, and the materiality of the figures combine to present visual propositions about the vicissitudes of Human History, when two cultures come into contact...
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