"Sentimento d’una bestia" - Rossella Eula

Unique work
 Technique: terracotta, acrylics and synthetic hair
 Dimensions: 150x60 cm
 2023

 The work presented below will consist of an environmental composition formed by a terracotta sculpture depicting a therianthropic being (half boar and half man) in which the human part will be the lower part of a human skeleton. The boar represents, in the collective imagination, especially contemporary, a figure seen almost entirely in a negative light.
 Animal considered "inconvenient, destructive, too much for human activities. A beast that if it cannot be used or hunted can only fill the space of a being without "space". Often the same end of the wild boar is reserved for everything that can be too uncomfortable for us to understand, such as sadness and melancholy. We are repelled by everything that we do not find pleasant. By emotions and situations that cause us discomfort, so we have begun to imagine that we can erase everything considered useless or painful in some way, forgetting that the consequence of this operation is the complete neglect of a fundamental part of our human experience (we are hiding the dust under a carpet).
 The sadness, the death drive, the depression, the anger, the violence, the oblivion that have always accompanied us, since man has had self-awareness, must be seen as necessary pieces of personal and collective evolution. Deserving of understanding and loving regard.
 The work will question the need to feel “uncomfortable” emotions as having the same importance as those we consider convenient for our inner growth.
 The sculpture, made of terracotta then painted and covered with synthetic fur in the animal part, will be available to the public to be touched and caressed. Around it there will be plants and flowers to create an environmental and immersive scene.

 Some photographs were taken during the exhibition 'In and Out reality' at the Spazio Musa gallery in Turin