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Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.
Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.

Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) 'Amaggio Ad Arcimboldo' Opus 167 (1976-79) - polished bronze puzzle sculpture.

Excerpt from the monograph BERROCAL, Jean-Louis Ferrier. Editions de la Difference, Paris, 1989. ISBN 2-7291-0467-4. Pages 24-25:

Among many other sculptures, his "OMAGGIO AD ARCIMBOLDO", is, from this point of view, a complete success.

Arcimboldo, as we know, is one of the most enigmatic artists in the history of painting.

Born in 1527 in Milan, he spent 26 years in Prague where he was in the service, successively, of Emperors Ferdinand I and Rudolf II, who showered him with gold and honours. The compound heads that he painted in large numbers metaphorically combine fruits, flowers, vegetables, roots, fish... The whole is expressed there each time by transformation groups: they are books which make "THE LIBRARIAN", the stump, the ivy, the mushrooms, symbols of the off season which make "WINTER". More than simple oddity, Arcimboldo's heads come from an outcrop comparable to that of aerial photos whose plant anomalies show the ruins that they are not. Contemporaries of the artist who were struck by them already qualified them as Invenzioni stupore'.

The Arcimboldo effect is so clever that Berrocal worked for no less than three years - from 1976 to 1979 - in order to match its visual impact. A pear for the nose, a tomato with its leaves for the chin, two calf kidneys for the cheeks, a horse's hoof for the neck, a cauliflower wrapped in laurel for the hair, ... a total of 30 pieces that their rods slide around a central axis with extreme precision. But, insofar as he passed to the three dimensions of sculpture, complex problems of internal organization arose - the brain is an electrical distribution crown of a Mazeratti engine - which he solved by means of the topology which he is fervent. His "OMAGGIO", when you assemble and disassemble the parts, is as beautiful as a theorem. Arcimboldo was also responsible, in Prague, for the enrichment of the imperial collections which included the most remarkable marvels of nature, science and the arts.

He would have liked that one.


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