The Galleria Grande of La Venaria Reale, a luminous corridor in the Savoy palace outside Turin, embodies a culture that measures itself against its past. In Italy, palaces, churches, and masterworks are not relics but anchors, a glorious inheritance tended with devotion. in Bronco Barocco, that inheritance is engraved into wood and sealed with silver and resin. The hall's vaults buckle and sway as though the palace itself had caught the bronco's momentum, while a cowboy rides through it, one arm flung skyward.
A companion to Renaissance Woman, the work stages a clash between two cultures. One is an old world devoted to permanence and continuity. The other is a new one that prizes disruption, reinvention, and the restless embrace of change. The bronco is that impulse made physical, volatile and unbroken in a hall built for measured promenade. Fittingly, rider and horse cut a sweeping diagonal across the frame, the device Baroque masters used to break Renaissance symmetry and charge an image with motion. Disruption is rendered in the old world's own grammar. Untouched by the engraving, the silhouette remains raw wood, a blank defiance against centuries of inherited ornament.
Materials: Black Walnut
23”H 23”W
The Galleria Grande of La Venaria Reale, a luminous corridor in the Savoy palace outside Turin, embodies a culture that measures itself against its past. In Italy, palaces, churches, and masterworks are not relics but anchors, a glorious inheritance tended with devotion. in Bronco Barocco, that inheritance is engraved into wood and sealed with silver and resin. The hall's vaults buckle and sway as though the palace itself had caught the bronco's momentum, while a cowboy rides through it, one arm flung skyward.
A companion to Renaissance Woman, the work stages a clash between two cultures. One is an old world devoted to permanence and continuity. The other is a new one that prizes disruption, reinvention, and the restless embrace of change. The bronco is that impulse made physical, volatile and unbroken in a hall built for measured promenade. Fittingly, rider and horse cut a sweeping diagonal across the frame, the device Baroque masters used to break Renaissance symmetry and charge an image with motion. Disruption is rendered in the old world's own grammar. Untouched by the engraving, the silhouette remains raw wood, a blank defiance against centuries of inherited ornament.
Materials: Black Walnut
23”H 23”W
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