Conversation

In Ciminaghi's most recent sculpture, the lyrical or poignantly meditative cadences have come to merge with a structural imperiousness that gives the images a monumental grandeur and at the same time extends the intimate vibrations of feeling onto a wider register. Already in the Figure at Rest every faintly elegiac note had been decisively banished in favour of a stony, pressing metre, without sentimental concessions but also without material or formalistic hedonism. In this respect that bronze remains a fundamental point of reference for the further developments of this poetics, which takes as its ideal screen a human condition understood as “integral doubt”, but with a punctilious will to recover and to overcome.