“Il Giro” is an innovative sculptural concept that allows the visualizer to appreciate many moments of its history, in differing planes during movement.
Il Giro is a sculptural concept developed by the Spanish sculptor Marco Augusto Dueñas: works conceived to be experienced in motion, revealing successive moments of their story as the viewer walks around them. Each turn about the piece discloses a new plane, so that the sculpture takes time itself as a working material — there is no single vantage point, only a sequence of instants the visitor assembles while circling the work. In this way, Dueñas carries the figurative tradition, from the Vitruvian Man to Michelangelo, into a fully contemporary idiom.
Future
Future reinterprets the Vitruvian Man as a contemporary woman. Dueñas presents a figure in mid-transformation — in constant motion, reshaping everything around her. As the viewer circles the piece, each plane reveals a further stage of that change.
Lotta
Lotta pays homage to Michelangelo’s Slaves, the figures that seem to strain against the block that holds them. Dueñas takes up that tension to speak of man in perpetual struggle — a figure who warps the plane itself to reach his ends. From every angle the sculpture offers a different moment of the contest: the body presses against the limits of form just as man presses against the limits of his own circumstance.
Lotta
Lotta pays homage to Michelangelo’s Slaves, the figures that seem to strain against the block that holds them. Dueñas takes up that tension to speak of man in perpetual struggle — a figure who warps the plane itself to reach his ends. From every angle the sculpture offers a different moment of the contest: the body presses against the limits of form just as man presses against the limits of his own circumstance.
Forza
Forza gives form to a woman become wind: a force that stands against the adversities surrounding her and strives to hold them back. The sail that wraps her embodies her capacity to navigate and to fight in the present. Circling the sculpture, the viewer finds in each plane a different moment of that struggle.