Scultura un corno 

Curator: Immediately, the vibrant red resin catches my eye, and this composition feels strikingly precarious! Editor: Indeed! Here we have "Scultura un corno" by Aldo Mondino, a captivating sculpture rendered in resin. Its precise date is, unfortunately, unknown to us. But that is only a minor issue in our appreciation of this unusual work. Curator: It's almost cartoonish in its stack of stylized pachyderms. The material also gives off a plastic feeling. And this tower formation is so obviously leaning, I wonder if it is symbolic of structural or cultural collapse. Editor: The stacking is key to its formal qualities. The successive forms create both solidity and void – note how the negative spaces carved into each elephant generate this rhythm that drives the upward surge of the tower. But I admit there is something subtly humorous at work as well. Curator: And aren’t elephants in art usually charged with representing collective memory and patriarchal strength? Stacking them like this is undermining this symbolism. By inverting power structures. One is almost invited to question the traditional symbols of authority. What if it all collapses? What would be left? Editor: That tension you identify resonates for me. Mondino’s strategy engages traditional figuration while toying with geometric abstraction, so one keeps circling between playful design and serious structural metaphor. Curator: Right. Mondino creates this visual conundrum where serious commentary meets satirical art, inviting the observer to rethink how they read the relations of authority, of how society itself is composed by supporting layers that may be ready to tilt or buckle under pressure. Editor: An optimistic assessment, perhaps, given how effectively this object achieves an aesthetic equilibrium while signaling a sort of barely suppressed instability. Curator: A beautiful paradox in our era that prizes stability, but thrives on social change and destabilization. This is the beauty of such visual constructions; it shows the underlying powerplays. Editor: Very well stated, the elephant may never look quite the same after considering this intriguing sculpture by Mondino.