Artwork ninety-three
The Canals
Year: 2023
Dimensions: 50cm x 50cm x 70cm
Technique: Rusty Steel, Pear Wood and Murano Glass

Artwork ninety-three
Year: 2023
Dimensions: 50cm x 50cm x 70cm
Technique: Rusty Steel, Pear Wood and Murano Glass
“The Canals” is the second of the 5 sculptures belonging to the collection entitled “The Other Side of the Moon”.
The Artist’s residence
Cesare Catania moved to Palazzo Donà dalle Rose during his personal exhibition to produce new sculptures and new works of art. The artist residency gives the artist the opportunity to be influenced by the city that hosts him. In this way, Cesare Catania’s new artistic production is a continuation of his poetics which for the occasion will mix with the artistic influences of one of the capitals of art history. Catania uses, among others, materials found locally, mixing them together with steel, silicone and acrylic, to give life to a new collection called “The other side of the Moon” and which is connected to the previous projects developed by the Donà Foundation from the Roses while remaining adherent to his own geometric and eclectic sculptural art.
The second of the 5 new sculptures is called “I Canali”, which shortly follows the production of the first entitled “I Sestieri”. Already in this last sculpture some red channels were represented inlaid on pear wood. Now conceptually it is as if the author zoomed in on the canals themselves, focusing all his attention on the energy charge of the waterways that cross the city of Venice.
The channels change color depending on the color of the sky and the position of the sun in relation to the city. Similarly, the sculpture in Catania changes color based on how the sun filters through the glass produced in Murano. This is the artist’s first experience in the land of glass, an experience that led him to personally create the circular crowns that embellish his artistic work in the furnace.
The channels are represented by fire-red Catania precisely because of the energetic value that the author himself attributes to it. They then have blue-gold and blue-mud reflections depending on the position from which they are observed.
In front of the crystal belt, a second ring stands out, made with the same pear wood used in the “Sestieri”, precisely to enhance the charm of a territory that has been able to base its origins on wood (all the foundations of the city in fact they are made with this material that is so alive and so eternal).
A phrase conceived by the author is carved on the wooden belt which reads “The Venetian Canals: the place where water stops time” (Cesare Catania)
This is how the artist describes the water of Venice. A forest of canals where the water stops time, unchanged for centuries… a place in Venice that has never changed over the years.
And precisely the charm given by immutability over time leads the author to define among the “Moons” of the collection the first sculpture that also pays homage to time, positioning black and white diamonds in the external steel spokes, almost as if they were the tips of a clock. In this, the Canali can be considered the first sculptural clock by Cesare Catania

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