Valeriano Trubbiani, elephant, bronze and aluminum sculpture, 1981










Sculpture by Valeriano Trubbiani depicting a bronze elephant pulling a huge aluminum ball to which it is chained. In this work the artist's intention to use his art as a means of denouncing injustice comes through perfectly. The sculpture is supposed to have been made in 1981; it has a wooden base where the author's signature is engraved. Trubbiani was an important artist from Macerata who exhibited his works all over the world. For Trubbiani, art must provoke wounds and his most distinctive themes are besieged cities, the cruelty of technology, bestiaries and fairy tales, menacing urban landscapes. In the early 1980s he was called upon by Federico Fellini to participate in the production of the sets for E la nave va.
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