hymn to life 1-9 sculpture by mario eremita

Hymn to Life 1-3 author’s proof

Bronze sculpture-monument lost wax casting, Bondeno di Ferrara

The project invlolves the creation from the cast of 9 specimens of which 3 are author’s proof. The first author’s proof was donated by the artist to the Parish of Merlengo ( Treviso Italy ).

This large sculpture was modeled in a plaster form by the artist Mario Eremita in his Merlengos’ laboratory of Ponzano Veneto in 1992.

The Parish Priest Don Eraldo Modolo wanted to leave to the pastoral community a significant and precious contemporary work of art that spoke directly to the hearts of the people. He therefore took up a collection to guarantee the artist’s living expenses: the artwork of the founders and the purchase of materials. Eremita received no compensation.

The second proof of the author was acquired in 2006 by a collector from Ferrara who wanted to place it in the park of his villa. Currently, the last seven examples must be created, including an author’s proof, they will be created only on commission. Each example, being the work created in 9 copies of which three are proofs of the author, is, according to the conventions and customs of the art market, to be considered a unique piece.

Critical note

Reading key; bottom up.

A majestic vegetal column screwed in a delicate spiral movement that recalls the basic chemistry of life, supports the sensual body of the eternal girl.

The body is magnificently tense and intent on tireless attachment. This artwork is an imposing affirmation of being, in its completeness.

The woman’s face is enraptured, dismayed to observe how, as soon as there are the slightest conditions, life takes root and grows, tenacious, strong, aggressive.

Finally, in a few instant centimeters the perspective escape, the climax, develops. The girl’s head contrasts with the solidity of her body. It flees from earthly life; leads to the extreme end.

Here is a vital form deformed by the abstract interprenetation of thought, which seeks afterlife and mystical confusion. The face is tense, the bones evident, the eye sockets empty, the skull stretched upwards; therefore no longer pushed from below but absorbed upwards.

However, there is something more. Generally it can be said that everything is there; and in fact it is so. This enormous vegetal column from which emerges, with a powerful dynamic spiral, the sensual body of the female intent on breastfeeding. It is a vital meaning: the roots, the tree of life, the spiral of life, the sumptuous and full forms of the woman who generates life, the powerful hips, the turgid chest; these are strong and unmistakable sexual appeals.

Sexuality is the key to life, sexual pleasure for humanity is the reward of life. Woman is at the center of sexuality. There is no symmetry between men and women. Woman is the meaning of life and for the artist she is the only hope of redemption.

The child in the mother’s arms has grown, has passed the age for breastfeeding but still depends on the mother’s breast. Once upon a time, ignorance, deprivation and poverty forced mothers to prolong breastfeeding.

The sculpture’s only truly symbolic quotation, this delicate testimony to the past also has a threatening meaning; perhaps a vital obsession: the dismay in observing how, as soon as the minimal conditions exist, life takes root and is tenacious, strong, aggressive.

Finally, observe the perspective escape. It is already present, in the climax, in the arms and hands: they become slender, thread-like, abstract. They contrast with bodily solidity, they want to disengage from earthly life. The woman’s face and head brong this “escape” to an end.

The figure here is no longer a vital form but is deformed by the abstract interpenetration that wants to bring impetus to the search for the supposed afterlife or mystical bewilderment. The face takes on extreme aspects and the skin is tense and makes the bones evident, the eye sockets already appear empty, the skull is stretched upwards, as if absorbed by a mysterious force of attraction, towards the sky, the unknown, the final answer:

God?

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    hymn to life 2-3 sculpture by mario eremita

    Hymn to Life 2/3 author’s proof

    Bronze sculpture-monument lost wax casting, Bondeno di Ferrara

    The project invlolves the creation from the cast of 9 specimens of which 3 are author’s proof. The first author’s proof was donated by the artist to the Parish of Merlengo ( Treviso Italy ).

    The one exhibited here is the 2/9 example created in 2006 for a provate collector who installed it in the park of his villa.

    In addition to the sculpture, the artist also designed the base, all in corten steel. It recalls the profession of the client and some symbolic objects including: the cosmic crosses; the sun; the moon; the zodiac signs of the client’s family; the horns of plenty.

    Currently, the last seven examples must be created, including an author’s proof, they will be created only on commission.

    Each example, being the artwork created in 9 copies of which three are proofs of the author, is, according to the conventions and customs of the art market, to be considered a unique piece.

    Critical note

    Reading key; bottom up.

    Critical note

    A majestic vegetal column screwed in a delicate spiral movement that recalls the basic chemistry of life, supports the sensual body of the eternal girl.

    The body is magnificently tense and intent on tireless attachment. This artwork is an imposing affirmation of being, in its completeness.

    The woman’s face is enraptured, dismayed to observe how, as soon as there are the slightest conditions, life takes root and grows, tenacious, strong, aggressive.

    Finally, in a few instant centimeters the perspective escape, the climax, develops. The girl’s head contrasts with the solidity of her body. It flees from earthly life; leads to the extreme end.

    Here is a vital form deformed by the abstract interprenetation of thought, which seeks afterlife and mystical confusion. The face is tense, the bones evident, the eye sockets empty, the skull stretched upwards; therefore no longer pushed from below but absorbed upwards.

    However, there is something more. Generally it can be said that everything is there; and in fact it is so. This enormous vegetal column from which emerges, with a powerful dynamic spiral, the sensual body of the female intent on breastfeeding. It is a vital meaning: the roots, the tree of life, the spiral of life, the sumptuous and full forms of the woman who generates life, the powerful hips, the turgid chest; these are strong and unmistakable sexual appeals.

    Sexuality is the key to life, sexual pleasure for humanity is the reward of life. Woman is at the center of sexuality. There is no symmetry between men and women. Woman is the meaning of life and for the artist she is the only hope of redemption.

    The child in the mother’s arms has grown, has passed the age for breastfeeding but still depends on the mother’s breast. Once upon a time, ignorance, deprivation and poverty forced mothers to prolong breastfeeding.

    The sculpture’s only truly symbolic quotation, this delicate testimony to the past also has a threatening meaning; perhaps a vital obsession: the dismay in observing how, as soon as the minimal conditions exist, life takes root and is tenacious, strong, aggressive.

    Finally, observe the perspective escape. It is already present, in the climax, in the arms and hands: they become slender, thread-like, abstract. They contrast with bodily solidity, they want to disengage from earthly life. The woman’s face and head brong this “escape” to an end.

    The figure here is no longer a vital form but is deformed by the abstract interpenetration that wants to bring impetus to the search for the supposed afterlife or mystical bewilderment. The face takes on extreme aspects and the skin is tense and makes the bones evident, the eye sockets already appear empty, the skull is stretched upwards, as if absorbed by a mysterious force of attraction, towards the sky, the unknown, the final answer:

    God?

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      monuments concept and projects by mario eremita

      Monument concept wild horses

      premise

      The associated artists of CAOS propose themselves for the design and creation of celebratory and commemorative monuments. The theme is the result of consultation with the client and an in-depth philological examination aimed at identifying the formal, symbolic, allegorical and content charactheristics of the work.

      The predilection for figurative themes, which therefore give centrality to the human figure, does not preclude the possibility of abstract creations, in particular thanks to the collaboration with the architect-artist Michelangelo Eremita who developed this particular genre of formalism.

      About the appropriateness of art in everyday life

      In history, beauty is a relative aesthetic attribute or value, linked to human civilizations in their evolution. It is not an absolute value.

      In art, beauty underlies the artist’s ability to build a coherent system of abstract meanings, concepts and values and also underlies the ability to transmit them intact and with extreme synthesis and effectiveness such as to directly reach those who are able to grasp them.

      Art does not need to be explained, it does not need to be translated or interpreted; art can be read, understood, welcomed, loved; but in it, beauty is an absolute value.

      Art does not transmit subjective values, it is not ethical; it refers to basic and fundamental, mysterious rules, linked to illusion, lies, dreams, perhaps to our ancestral fears.

      For this reason, beautiful expressions of art contain messages that can be grasped at any time and everywhere, assuming traits of absoluteness or giving the illusion of it.

      The questions we must ask ourselves and ask our children today are the following:
      “how much art knowledge is there in us?”;
      “how much of this knowledge is at the service of mankind?”

      A real reflection is needed on the need to conquer a human society based on knowledge ad art; therefore an objectively beautiful society.

      Attention towards art from early age must be cultivated in our children. We must take children to museums, to art galleries, we must demand that schools provide teachers od Art History and not just Drawing; we must expect these teachers to transmit a love for art.

      Understanding art means knowing how to see and knowing how to see is a difficult goal to achieve; sometimes one life is not enough. We must therefore show the way to young people so that they can choose.

      Hypotheses and projects for a renaissance of the arts

      Today, not only Religious Institutions of Private Collectors but also and perhaps above all, Public Administrators, play an important function in developing people’s sensitivity towards art. They have the possibility of mending a huge fracture that has been created between the people and contemporary art since the 20th century.

      Art must return close to people to lay the foundations for its rebirth. In the planning of master plans, residential areas and in the future redesign of the disheartening industrial areas, recently discouraged by natural disasters, we must return to placing man and humanity at the center and this also passes through careful research and selection of artists capable of carrying out artworks that make the community cohesive. Artworks around which the human community can rally, exactly as happened in our Renaissance with the contribution of the Church but also of enlightened and aware Dominants, such as Federico Da Montefeltro os Sigismondo Malatesta or Lorenzo Dei Medici.

      Such work has strong political underpinnings; whoever wants to take in this pleasant and exciting responsibility will get the history. Whoever is able to enrich the community with what is created for it and not what is built for a claimed honor to the “art” itself will have created a thousand possibilities for his fellow citizens.

      In these pages we wanted to present some sketches of great artworks for the sole purpose of giving an idea of the possibilities offered by the imagination of the artist Mario Eremita and the architect-artist Michelangelo Eremita.

      Wild Horses

      Here is the sketch for the “Wild Horses” sculpture. It is a bronze sculpture in which Murano glass elements are inserted. The horses are suspended in this bronze and glass frame which in turn represents the tree of life.

      monuments concept wild horses by mario eremita

      The horses trot on the branches of the tree of life which also seem to resemble the waves of the sea. It is an idea of very strong dynamism and great brightness that creates a positive, encouraging, stimulating, climate, favorable to sociality, conviviality and optimism, trust and an idea of progress accompained by development.

      monuments concept wild horses by mario eremita

      The artworks of authentic artists are always linked to the human community that appreciates them and makes part of the references of everyday life. When things are like this, the foundations have been laid for a comparison with history, with time and with the possibility of social and cultural development of a community.

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        miliana monuments concept and projects by mario eremita

        Monuments concept Miliana Papilion Hospiton

        premise

        The associated artists of CAOS propose themselves for the design and creation of celebratory and commemorative monuments. The theme is the result of consultation with the client and an in-depth philological examination aimed at identifying the formal, symbolic, allegorical and content charactheristics of the work.

        The predilection for figurative themes, which therefore give centrality to the human figure, does not preclude the possibility of abstract creations, in particular thanks to the collaboration with the architect-artist Michelangelo Eremita who developed this particular genre of formalism.

        About the appropriateness of art in everyday life

        In history, beauty is a relative aesthetic attribute or value, linked to human civilizations in their evolution. It is not an absolute value.

        In art, beauty underlies the artist’s ability to build a coherent system of abstract meanings, concepts and values and also underlies the ability to transmit them intact and with extreme synthesis and effectiveness such as to directly reach those who are able to grasp them.

        Art does not need to be explained, it does not need to be translated or interpreted; art can be read, understood, welcomed, loved; but in it, beauty is an absolute value.

        Art does not transmit subjective values, it is not ethical; it refers to basic and fundamental, mysterious rules, linked to illusion, lies, dreams, perhaps to our ancestral fears.

        For this reason, beautiful expressions of art contain messages that can be grasped at any time and everywhere, assuming traits of absoluteness or giving the illusion of it.

        The questions we must ask ourselves and ask our children today are the following:
        “how much art knowledge is there in us?”;
        “how much of this knowledge is at the service of mankind?”

        A real reflection is needed on the need to conquer a human society based on knowledge ad art; therefore an objectively beautiful society.

        Attention towards art from early age must be cultivated in our children. We must take children to museums, to art galleries, we must demand that schools provide teachers od Art History and not just Drawing; we must expect these teachers to transmit a love for art.

        Understanding art means knowing how to see and knowing how to see is a difficult goal to achieve; sometimes one life is not enough. We must therefore show the way to young people so that they can choose.

        Hypotheses and projects for a renaissance of the arts

        Today, not only Religious Institutions of Private Collectors but also and perhaps above all, Public Administrators, play an important function in developing people’s sensitivity towards art. They have the possibility of mending a huge fracture that has been created between the people and contemporary art since the 20th century.

        Art must return close to people to lay the foundations for its rebirth. In the planning of master plans, residential areas and in the future redesign of the disheartening industrial areas, recently discouraged by natural disasters, we must return to placing man and humanity at the center and this also passes through careful research and selection of artists capable of carrying out artworks that make the community cohesive. Artworks around which the human community can rally, exactly as happened in our Renaissance with the contribution of the Church but also of enlightened and aware Dominants, such as Federico Da Montefeltro os Sigismondo Malatesta or Lorenzo Dei Medici.

        Such work has strong political underpinnings; whoever wants to take in this pleasant and exciting responsibility will get the history. Whoever is able to enrich the community with what is created for it and not what is built for a claimed honor to the “art” itself will have created a thousand possibilities for his fellow citizens.

        In these pages we wanted to present some sketches of great artworks for the sole purpose of giving an idea of the possibilities offered by the imagination of the artist Mario Eremita and the architect-artist Michelangelo Eremita.

        Miliana Papilion Hospiton

        The bronze sculpture represents a female figure dressed in a chiton and peplos woven with coral who elegantly spreads her arms while on her right hand she raises the butterfly “Papilio Hospiton” to invite it to take flight, the butterfly in question is a symbol of Sardinia and is at risk of extinction.

        monuments concept papilion hospiton by mario eremita

        The bronze sculpture will be modeled in clay and subsequently prepared for lost wax bronze casting; only one example will be made, after which the clay model will be destroyed.

        monuments concept papilion hospiton by mario eremita

        After the appropriate finishing touches, the statue will be polished, preserving the light encrustations of the natural green of oxidation. The base not only has the function of support but also thet of representing, in the lower part, the laurel plant, a symbol of excellence, glory and victory. It shows the grooves and decorations of vague classical reference in the carriage.

        monuments concept papilion hospiton by mario eremita

        It is an artwork that proposes the instances of symbolist figurative art. The female figure is called Miliana which, in flora terminology, means rural laurel or elder.

        monuments concept papilion hospiton by mario eremita

        The human figure, standing above a laurel plant which symbolizes excellence, glory and victory, has its arms open as if to imitate the gliding flight of butterflies while on the tips of the fingers of the left hand it welcomes a Papilio Hospiton, a sardinian flying insect at risk of extinction, which gently invites you to take flight.
        The female figure wears a chiton and peplum woven with coral, references to the preciousness of the sardinian sea.

        monuments concept papilion hospiton by mario eremita

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