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Long, slender legs, round faces like Christmas baubles... and indeed they are.

The sculptor Antonio Cugnetto enters the Frilli Gallery, bringing the inhabitants of his planet, made of everything that is scattered and abandoned on earth. Antonio creates them, cares for them, and makes their elegant, tailored figures a presence that softens, heals the soul, and instils peace.

His sculptures take the time to observe, play, and think. There's no sense of urgency or haste to achieve something in these ageless characters; they live suspended in an action that lasts as long as it wants to last, protected by their plexiglass boxes.

Ordinary scenes become a celebration of the same actions that everyone performs without thinking. We understand that petting a small dog is profoundly important, bringing well-being to the person who caresses it, but that it often happens in a distracted manner, without truly connecting with the person receiving the caress. A spinning top deserves to be looked at carefully, observed, and listened to, discovering that it emits imperceptible noises.

The art of this sculptor is not for everyone, but it is certainly a poetry that resonates with those who aren't looking for dynamism and virtuoso displays of form, but rather need ideas in intimate spaces, clear and true visions that don't lie and that help them, for a moment, stop, see, and find a dimension that will accommodate them for however long they wish to remain.