Daniele Boi: the form of absence

Trasmuting absence, returning disguised as sculpture. This is the work of Daniele Boi.
This twenty-four year old artist flips the traditional and physical idea of sculpture to reach the sculpture as modelling of inner space, of the lack inherent in any human being. When the viewer becomes capable of experiencing the abandonment of one’s ego, they can bridge the gaps characteristic in the works of Daniele.

Metamorphosis – Daniel Boi, 2013 Pink Marble Perlino, 50 x 90 x 27 cm

Union – Daniele Boi – Pink Marble Perlino – 160 x 140 x 80 cm

The work of this young man is decidedly present and unusual: in lieu of a solipsistic and self-communicative retreating into himself we find in his creations the impetus to sharing, to interaction. The void is filled with the relationships: the relationship between men as well as the relationship between the work – therefore the artist- and the viewer. The man resolves and comprehend himself by seeing and finding himself face to face with himself through the mirror of those around him and by means of the intimism of absences materialized in sculpture.
Boi, who attends the 2nd year of specialisation  in Public Monumental Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Santa Giulia, even in his future prospects reveals its participatory nature. He would like to pass on, in fact, by teaching the techniques that enable him to express his talent also in painting; a material and unusual painting in tools as in materials; he often applies the tar with a trowel and the acrylics on metal plates with gloved hands. Painting, for him, means primarily molding.
The beginnings of Daniele place in the figurative soon abandoned because considered fictitious: the sculptor sees the figuration as an emotionless mask. He expresses emotion in organic forms as the primordial and opulent Mother. These creations are symbols from which it draws shapes similar to seals rather than representative art. They are complete works only at the moment of interaction with others who get the moment, the immediacy, because do not celebrate some kind of past but celebrate the present, the fallen and today’s falls. Here therefore explained the use of marble: classic and permanent, commemorative and at the same time always used by humans for housing and for their own defence, or for the brutal attack, the thrown stone is the oblivion of death, of men’s ferocity, is the explosive energy of the revolt but also chest of the expressive potential of present. As far as contemporary art considers marble almost a taboo, the analysis of reality tells us it is the superior material for creating beauty or violence as well as intrinsically bearer of life and death.

Metamorfosi – Daniele Boi, 2013, Marmo rosa perlino, cm 50 x 90 x 27

The young artist Daniele Boi, discovering his own identity wanted to reach the absolute through forms, therefore bridging his own gaps and the gaps of people through the sculptural absences he moulds, ‘cos as as taught by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in “The Little Prince”, “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye”. Daniele absorbed such teaching wanting to “express myself through an art approaching to the essential signs of form and soul, without masks, only useful to hide an apparent and fictitious identity, a non-life. I chased the vision of another world, of another idea of life, more living and humanized, which retrieves the signs and the original forms, healthier, more extreme and certainly more innocent and essential. A life lived without masks, trying to look beyond appearances and into things, with more honesty and with the ability to express with no intermediaries and no excuses the emotions, fears, dreams of all mankind, of every human being in any place or time might live. “