Part of the larger collection of works that Emilio Greco donated to the National Museum of Abruzzo in July 1992, the sculptures in this section offer visitors a truly significant image of the ideal of feminine beauty, in which the artist saw the reflection of the perfect harmony of form and light to which he aspired throughout his life.
Departing from much of modern sculpture’s pursuit of an informal dictum and a poetics of light that dissolves form when not overtly iconoclastic, Greco reclaims, in the wake of a tradition that begins with Arturo Martini and continues with Giacomo Manzù, Pericle Fazzini, and Marino Marini, the ancient value of the plastic image in all its fullness of form, while simultaneously immersing it in an abstract luminosity that gives his sculptures the appearance of timeless, mythical figures.
