Sandro Gorra’s Giraffes
The idea of the giraffe, a sumptuous breed with the most significant design on the planet, which lives by looking at everyone from above, according to Gorra is the parable of man, the one who aspires to superior social level.
Which giraffe, if it lost its distintive mark, would find itself naked like a bovine whose neck they have pulled. Just as would happen to a man with a relative collapse of status: from being a giraffe to becoming a naked giraffe.
The naked giraffe
Being one from being everyone. Your difference, the capability to go out of the quagmire is never a mixture of elements. It is one, simple and powerful thing: it is your sign, the one staining you in an exemplary way. And if by chance it should go away, in the same way as it gave you your personal features, it would leave you naked or simply erase you. Ask a giraffe when it’s windy.
2018 Resin, polycarbonates, acrylics, iron 235 x 195 x 100 cm
2018 Resin, polycarbonates, acrylics, iron 235 x 195 x 100 cm
Loser
It cost Gianni a lot to earn this, but now he was loosing his mark. He felt a sense of emptiness along his back.
2018 Lacquered resine, acrylics 60x60x30 cm
2018 Lacquered resine, acrylics 60x60x30 cm
Marilyn
She had completed the climb: now she was the boss. She came down to the street and felt as if she could fly.
2018 Lacquered resine, acrylics, other materials 120x280x120 cm
2018 Lacquered resine, acrylics, other materials 120x280x120 cm
Close the door
It was a great effort, but in the end the image was perfect. A design of indisputable beauty, epidemiologically unassailable in society. Shame about that blow of air that shocked her signs and status in an instant.
2019 Lacquered epoxy resine, acrylics, other materials
2019 Lacquered epoxy resine, acrylics, other materials
We, naked giraffes