Rinascita – Avvolta
I built it upwards, ring after ring. Those rings, for me, are the evolution of form and time: they move from simplicity to torsion. Inside one of them I suspended an egg, and with it a small bird — the egg is the simplest and strongest symbol there is: life, creation, birth, fragile and resilient at the same time. It reminds me of the suspended egg in Piero della Francesca’s *Montefeltro Altarpiece*, and I like to think of it that way. It is concrete, and yet I wanted it to feel light, suspended.
PAOLA GRASSI
- 01 My deep passion for the mountains—the place where I feel happiest!
- 02 My Vespa. It was my companion between the ages of 16 and 21: blue-grey, 125cc, three gears. I still have it.
- 03 My books. Identifying Birds – Identifying Wild Plants – Identifying Trees and Shrubs: three books I never tire of consulting. And Frederick Antal’s Florentine Painting and Its Social Background, for its methodological approach to the study of art history.
« Monferrato is the breath of the Earth: hills that rise and unfold like a slow exhalation, among vineyards, woodlands, and farmhouses that preserve a pace of life measured to human scale. »