A gaze
that holds us.
The marked forehead, the eyes, the beard extending into space. Mangiafuoco’s expression rests in his face: come closer to follow every fold of the surface.
Salvatore Troiano / Sculptures
Mangiafuoco.
A giant.
A puppet.
An encounter in suspension.
Material, gesture, imagination.Scroll to discover A story in four chapters
01 / From story to sculpture
Strength.
Fragility.
The distance between a giant and a puppet fits entirely in one hand.
Mangiafuoco and Pinocchio: two figures from the same tale, two presences of opposite scale. In Salvatore Troiano’s sculpture, the large face and small body meet in the dark space around them.
The story can be read through three details: the gaze, the hand and the puppet. Pause on each of them.
A gaze
A hand.
An entire story.
The fingers curve around the small puppet. Veins, knuckles and cuff make the gesture present, almost alive. Here, the difference in scale becomes an encounter.
Small,
at the centre of everything.
Open arms, a pale body and suspended legs. Pinocchio interrupts Mangiafuoco’s warm tones and draws the eye toward the hand supporting him.
From form to story
Before meeting
Pinocchio,
it was material.
02 / Behind the work
The hands
before the hand.
Studio photographs reveal the process: modelling, surface details, different viewpoints and the finished work on display.
01 / 04
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03 / Two moments, one gesture
The form changes.
The gesture remains.
Move the slider to switch between the sculpted form and the coloured detail. Two photographs of the same hand, taken from different angles.
Drag to explorePhotographs of the making and the installed work
04 / The artwork archive
From every
point of view.
19 photographs
Mangiafuoco / Salvatore Troiano