The Daily Herald Magazine recently published an article about Matteo Mauro and his sculpture Dolce Meta or Sweet Half.
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The artwork mentioned in the article is Sweet Half or Dolce Meta. The story about loneliness. The story about the preliminary life we are abandoning every moment. The story of the pandemic 2020. The story of goodbye. This life-size sculpture demonstrates a torso halved into two pieces by a fine split.
Dolce Meta is made of Michelangelo statuary white marble which is one of the most beautiful and precious marbles taken out from Carrara’s quarries. Sweet Half is also the most discussed work by Matteo Mauro today. According to Matteo, “Sweet Half is a story about love written by Plato and misinterpreted by the whole world. A story that ends, but don’t begin again. Sweet Half is a hovering sculpture while sliding after a fleeting cut, that finds its balance at the moment in which it is observed”.
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