Metal bonsai
By Laura Luciano
Paolo Terrosi's metal bonsai breathes like an unexpected breath. It's a slow, restrained breath, like that of something yearning to live even within the hardest material. In his hands, the metal ceases to be cold: it becomes a branch searching for light, a root yearning for a home, a gesture reminiscent of the earth. Each shape speaks softly, like real things, those that don't need to raise their voices to be understood.Terrosi builds trees that don't grow, but that make those who look at them grow. Small, solid, permeated by a tenderness that arrives suddenly. They are a bridge between what resists and what moves, between strength and fragility. In front of these sculptures, one stops without realizing it. Not out of obligation, but because something within opens up: as if those small shapes reminded us that we too, in our own way, search for light, space, possibility. And then you understand that you're not just looking at a work: you're looking a little inside yourself.
Under the Venezuelan sky
H45 x W48 x D43 cm
Aluminum wire sculpture on a base made
with a section of poplar root treated
with oil and beeswax.
(Available)
The Golden Joshua Tree
H45 x W29 x D26 cm
This work was commissioned from me by a client who is a big fan of the rock band U2. The band released the album “The Joshua Tree ”in 1987 inspired by these very iconic trees of the Yucca Brevifolia family that are found in the Mojave Desert in California and other parts of the southwestern United States.
(The work was sold in Italy)
Autunno In Toscana (Autumn In Tuscany)
H37 x W50 x D40 cm
This work I made on commission in 2019 and with a very specific purpose and that is to re-propose, in a personal key, but following precise canons, an olive tree that is another of the symbolic trees that characterize my region, Tuscany.
(The work was sold in Tuscany)
The Majestic
H60 x W34 x D36 cm
"Sophora Japonica Pendula," a tree variety of eastern origin, mainly China and Korea, was the model that inspired me to create this work. Its elegant bearing, the softness of its lines, with this dense foliage gently falling, have always fascinated me.
(The work was sold in Texas)
P.S. - Another work similar in size, style, and colors, was sold in California.
Winter Time
H50 x W40 X D38 cm
The continuous and changing cycle of the seasons beautifully characterizes, as only nature can, the landscapes of trees and forests around the world. In winter, trees fall asleep after losing their leaves in autumn and seem to fall into a sort of hibernation, only to sprout new life in the following spring.
(The sculpture was sold in London)
Holi
H50 x W50 x D40 cm
I created this work inspired by a wonderful celebration, Holi, which has been celebrated for centuries in India and other countries. This celebration, born centuries ago in India and Nepal, primarily symbolizes, with the arrival of spring, rebirth, the victory of good over evil, the desire for forgiveness, and the strengthening of social relationships.
(The work was sold in