Anguane
... anguane, aquane, egane ...
"artist of indisputable talent, Margherita Michelazzo uses metals and alloys with originality to give shape to ancient myths". (Interview "TAM TAM", 2008)
Light sculptures that draw the air.
As he hung on the feeble thread of memory.
Glistening in the moonlight, like the white robes and oil-shining hair of the anguane.
WHAT
Site-specific installations in wire mesh
WHERE IS IT
Sojo Park, Lusiana VI
WHEN
2006
Wire mesh
Cor-Ten steel
The ambiguous body of the Anguana, snake woman, appears overturned to induce in the observer unusual and free perspectives, emptied of its other nature, as if torn from the mother plate, it slips into the prehistoric land of Sojo, to recover the eternal myth of Nature, generous yet capable of pitfalls and revenge if Man neglects it and tramples on it.
Almost Neolithic decoration to the aquatic and lunar cult, dedicated to life and fertility, this Anguana is proposed again in the void of the slab to renew itself in the changing colors of the seasons.
Sojo Park in " How many stories ", by Corrado Augias, Rai3, 2018.
WHAT
Cor-ten steel anguana, site specific work
WHERE IS IT
The Sojo di Lusiana Park (VI) closes to the south.
WHEN
2006
Mirror
They reflect the surrounding nature and treat light as a raw material.
They refer to the "forefathers" of the resurgences.
They have duck feet or waterfowl feet.
WHAT
Mirroring anguane.
Work in progress, site specific
WHERE IS IT
Villa Pojana,
Pojana Maggiore (VI)
WHEN
2017