He had promised it in the interview he gave to UnioneSarda.it a few months ago: “I'll leave everyone stunned”, and so it probably will be. Salvatore Garau, the artist of immaterial sculptures, this time presents a work 7 meters high and 3 tons heavy. This is the head of "Mars Eel", made in 2010 and which represents an eel tail twelve meters high and weighing eight tons that sticks into the earth, located in Santa Giusta, the town of which Garau originates.
The inauguration of the head - realized thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Santa Giusta and the Foundation of Sardinia - is scheduled for November: from the first information it will emerge from the earth not far from the tail of the sculpture and from the same pond of Santa Giusta to which the work is dedicated and that was once the most fishy for eels in Europe.
The new work consists of two parts which, in the next few days, will be glazed and welded in the workshop of the blacksmith Stefano Piga. Completely made and beaten by hand, it has an open mouth that bites into two Hellenic heads of the 2nd century BC, perfect copies of the young Satyr of Othoca with marked Negroid characters, discovered under the lagoon during the underwater excavations in 2010 directed by Carla Del Vais and Ignazio Sanna.
Garau had begun to think about the realization three years ago when he found the ceramic of the young satyr in front of him.
"The eel's head has wandered for 11 years under a land rich in history and civilization - confirms the artist - Now it will sprout nervously holding traces of our past between its teeth, as if to put us in the face who we have been and to remind us from where we come. Ours was a land of commerce, wealth and encounters of many peoples who took turns in the Mediterranean ”.
Meanwhile, on 12 October an immaterial sculpture by Garau will be auctioned by Art-Rite, the one entitled “In front of you”.
(Unioneonline / ss)
