The Artworks of Simonetta Berruti

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Kouros Simonetta Berruti

Mythology

Like an ancient kouros, but the body is destroyed and disarticulated

Venere lesa Injured Venus Simonetta Berruti

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Simonetta Berruti - Venere lesa Injured Venus

Woman

An “Injured Venus” is any woman felt himself in her existence offended and violated not only in her body but, above all, in her mind. The sculpture remembers in his triangular shape a lacerated and violenced feminine sex. A petrified rape that lives in the absolute immobility of the pain.

shanghai shape Simonetta Berruti

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The title is reminiscent of the ancient game called in italian “Shanghai”, or “Mikado” where the talent lies in being able to move a stick or a series of sticks without moving those underneath. A series of points, like sharpened arrows overlap one another intersecting on the superior part of the scu...

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Pondus Simonetta Berruti

Pondus in latin means “ weight”. In this sculpture all is based on the contrast between heaviness and lightness, inert mass and levity. The static and heavy body, just “the weight” of the upper part of the sculpture, leans on very brittle violet starks that stretch out multiplying and corroding the ...

Il ritorno di Euridice - Euridice's return Simonetta Berruti

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Simonetta Berruti - Il ritorno di Euridice - Euridice-s return

the end of Euridice's dream of freedom .The figure is stopped in the exact moment in wich Orpheo turn back and Eurisice sweept in the hell , the word of Ade

Kekaritomène Simonetta Berruti

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'kekaritomene' is in the biblic text the exact term in wich is described the annunciation. ;Letterally it means ' she that's was be rendered full of grace' ;This conceptual sculpture rappresented the trasformation from the human( the round part corroded) to the spiritual moment of Mary's conception(...

doppio sogno - double dream Simonetta Berruti

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Simonetta Berruti - doppio sogno - double dream

A double triangular sculpture, two specular parts divided but, in the same time,simbolised both the same twin dream. ;Remain ,over all, the same oniric sensation of evanescence and fraility.