This publication presents in detail the path for the creation of the work of the artist Ivo Soldini entitled "Zig Zag", the majestic bronze sculpture that rises over eight meters in Castione (Ticino – Switzerland) at the headquarters of the Mancini & Marti company.
Its monumentality, beyond its size, is felt mainly by the internal strength with which it faces the strength of the place for which it was destined and to which it now belongs. The character of the sculpture is expressed in its telluric soul (Soldini's plasticity is firmly rooted in the earth and rises from it, as if prolonging its magmatic movement), his ability to measure himself with nature and the territory appears entirely consequent, if not downright in the order of a given given.
The images of Cosimo Filippini follow step by step the work of the artist intent on creating this important artpiece.
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Cosimo Filippini is a Swiss artist. In 1999, he moved to Milan where, in 2004, he graduated in Economics for Arts, Culture and Communication from Università L. Bocconi and, in 2006, earned his piano diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music. In 2006, he began working as a photographer, at first collaborating with the art and architecture photographer Václav Šedý with whom he had the opportunity to further study the use of the view camera. From 2010 he specialized in photographing exhibitions and artworks.
In 2018, he was granted an artist residency by ProHelvetia, the Viavai+ project, and participated in VIR – Via Farini in Residence in Milan. In 2020 he was invited by the Kirchner Museum in Davos to do photographic performances on portraiture.
Recently, his attention has turned to participatory art practices, as in the residency project Adamà Adamà, figli della terra rossa at Casa degli Artisti di Milano, during House of Switzerland, a program by Pro Helvetia and Presence Switzerland, the office of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.