About
Roberto Tagliazucchi
I was born in Carrara, in a place where matter belongs to everyday life even before it belongs to art. My artistic path developed between Carrara and Paris, through sculpture, painting and drawing.
My research does not begin with the desire to represent a form, but with the attempt to bring matter, space, light and tension into relation.
In sculpture, the void is not absence. It belongs to form and can continue to make present what has been removed. I seek a dynamic balance between fullness and void, weight and lightness, matter and space.
My idea of sculpture
For me, to sculpt is to place points in space, to trace lines in order to define, to bend light through the play of shadows, to use space within form rather than form within space.
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 not the void that remains around matter. It is an active presence. Form measures it, passes through it, sets it into tension.
Space is not outside form. It is part of form.
When I open a void, I do not remove matter. I construct a space. When I carve, I do not destroy. I make a relation visible.