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.
He often wanted to relate to the tradition of the great ancient sculpture that constitutes, in fact, the essential reference point of the artist. In his famous style he reproduces an Etruscan Chimera statue which, according to Greek mythology, was a monstrous lioness who spat fire from the mouth and who lived near the city of Lycia, in Asia Minor. His body was made up of many animal parts: on his back he had a goat's head, and along the whole arch he had dragon scales, while his tail was of a snake. His “cyber Chimera” consists of an iron structure on which various everyday objects are assembled, from the hair-dryer to the vacuum cleaner, from the CD player to the chess pieces. In this way the artist restores dignity and vitality to discarded technological materials, creating an elegant figure that is absolutely similar to the original Etruscan to which it evidently refers. This Chimera is aerodynamic, almost spatial in its slender and nervous shape.
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