Gemelli, 2022, 30 x 37 x 16 cm, fiberglass, recycled styrofoam, polyurethane resin, bronze & coldpatine
Suspended in the middle of three trees, Gemelli is a reinterpretation of the Ancient Roman Janus, the double faced God. Commonly depicted on the capital of a column, Janus is divorced from his traditional narrative as the God of transitions and reborn as Gemelli, a feminine and androgynous symbol, standing in as the artist signature for the sculpture garden.
Shrouded in bronze and brass, the levitating sculpture stylistically references the veils from Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Ettore Ferrari’s Monumento a Giordano Bruno.
Gemelli is pseudo architectural, a column capital without its column - instead it floats free in the trees.
The Ponder Peace sculpture garden thematically plays with inverting form and function and Gemelli, much like Medusa and Anfora, is a hybridic symbol reclaimed from classical tradition for the contemporary moment.
