Dario Tironi seems to tell us through his work that art can also come from discards. Waste can return to new life: that's how old Barbies, broken calculators, plastic bottles, golf balls and cables become something else, taking on the features of life-size men and animals. Assembled together they manage to transmit much more than what they appear.
His sculptures achieve surprising expressive results, thanks above all to the constant reference to the paradigms of classicism. The legacy of the classical tradition constitutes, in fact, the essential reference point of the artist. Mindful of the classical sculpture revolution he reproduces the figure of Apoxyomenos (he who cleanses), bronze statue of Lysippus datable to 330-320 BC. The Apoxyomenos depicts a young athlete in the act of cleaning his body with a metal scraper, which the Romans called “strigilis” (curries). It was an instrument of the time, of metal, iron or bronze, which was used only by men and, mainly, by athletes to clean themselves from dust, sweat and excess oil that was spread on the skin before the fight races. The athlete is then depicted in a moment following the competition, in an act that unites the winner and the won. As far as the final outcome is nothing cold, far from it. An explosion of colours and quivering vitality characterizes his replica of the famous classical sculpture.
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