About
Roberto Tagliazucchi
I was born in Carrara, where I was shaped by its culture of material, and I came of age artistically in France. My research does not separate abstraction from figuration: both arise from a single question—the tension between body, matter and space.
I sculpt not only what remains. I also sculpt what, though removed, continues to exist.
From the book
Sculpture as Tension
Notes on the Birth of Form
Read the book →Sculpture does not simply occupy space. It organizes it.
Space is an active presence: form measures it, passes through it, and brings it into tension.
The void, by contrast, is not absence. When I remove material, what takes its place continues to be perceived as part of the form.
Solid and void thus belong to the same sculptural construction; space is the field in which this relationship takes on tension and presence.