Address: Piazza Battisti
A large abstract sculpture, portraying a geometric solid that has freed itself from its formal “cage” and that nearly levitates into the air thanks to two wing like appendices.
Explaination: Made in 1977 and placed here more than ten years later, this is perhaps Zauli’s most “public” work, if for no other reason than its position and for its explosion of symbolic meanings. Even in its pure abstract style, it in fact celebrates all of the armies who helped to free Faenza in 1944. It consists of a primary geometric form, which has shed its formal shell to give way to a free structure that nearly levitates into the air. The surface is of an admirable white-grey colour (the famous “bianco Zauli” – Zauli white) emphasised by folds, small craters and soft cavities. Carlo Zauli (1926-2002) is one of the Faentine ceramists of the twentieth century who perhaps, more than any others dedicated himself to pure sculpture, always privileging the use of ceramics, in particular of stoneware, ennobling it into monumental forms, ever more limited by their size and by their object based role.
