Description
You can make art with waste materials, recycling the pieces of which the artistic works are made. You can make art with “waste material”, giving a new meaning to the now forgotten cultural elements. Artist Ciro, Roberto Cipollone, is one of the few to make this type of accompaniments.
In Egyptian culture, Naophoros is a peculiar genre of sculpture that depicts a character, the bearer of gifts.
In Christian culture, the Western one, a character with raised hands can have various meanings:
- Meaning of surrender
- Meaning of supplication
- Meaning of gratitude
- Meaning of praise
- But also the original meaning of the naophorus himself, the meaning of the gift.
In Ciro’s Naophorus one can glimpse the crucified Christ, who represents all these vital attitudes towards God the Father.
The body of the Naophorus (or Christ Crucified) is made of a piece of wood that was once part of a wine barrel. This piece of wood, therefore, in the past protected wine, a symbol of life.
The coral that is found in the place of the heart of the Naophorus (or Christ Crucified) was found by Ciro on the beaches of the Caribbean. Coral carries within it the meaning of continuous evolution and regeneration.
Naophorus – bearer of the gifts.
Christ crucified – the bearer of life.
