Laboratorio Lombrosiano: visión poética de una serie escultórica

Abstract

An interdisciplinary project (sculpture and poetry) based on a sculptural series of 21 pieces belonging to an exhibit called «Laberinto de pasiones» (Labyrinth of Passions) ,is being developed. Each piece, depicting idealised representations of the human head, belongs to a poem and each poem emerged from the particular interpretation of each of these. In plastic arts, representation, understood as an expression rather than an objective imitation of reality, is always interpreted in much the same way as poetry, which is a creative act that emerges from the subject through the endless invention that is, language. This project is presented as a creation field experiment that clearly shows the close relationship that exists between the poet’s creative mind and that of the creators of plastic arts, between images and words. The project ends with the publication of the book Laboratorio lombrosiano which, although the title refers to the controversial psychiatrist and criminal anthropologist, Cesare Lombroso, what is important is not so much him, but the laboratory which the authors visited to launch this poetic-artistic discourse and which, in the words of Amelia Gamoneda, has covered three simultaneous paths: The credulous history of anatomical-anthropological science, the shameful history of eugenics and the thrilling history of the correlation between that which is plastic and that which is emotional.