Cosenza - Corso Mazzini

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Corso Mazzini - Cosenza

Open Air Museum


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Open Air Museum Bilotti

In the modern part of Cosenza, in an area stretching from the

pedestrianized Corso Mazzini to Piazza Bilotti, lies the open-air

"Museo MAB" (Museo all'aperto Bilotti) which hosts a wide range of

modern art sculptures that stand in the street for residents and

tourists.

The sculptures were donated to the city by the Italian-

American entrepreneur and art collector, Carlo Bilotti


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Lupo Della Sila Mimmo Rotella

The sculpture looks likedifferent silhouettes of

green marble drawn up

together to form the image

of the Sila Wood Woolf,

symbol of the city ofCosenza.


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The Bronzesfrom Riace and

Three Columns

are two works

that representa clear homage

to the classic

culture of

Magna Graecia

by the French

artist Sacha

Sosno.

Bronzi Di Riace Sasha Sosno

The silhouettes of

the Bronzes are

cut in two sheets

of bronze with a

curious negative,

see-through

effect.


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The Italian sculptorManz has always been

fascinated by members

of high clergy.

The Cardinal here

portrayed is

represented

sitting on a throne.

Noticeable is the

vertical development of

the figure.

Gran Cardinale Giacomo Manz


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More

impressive is

the terrifying

head of

Medusa by

the same

author.

Testa di Medusa G. Manz


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The two figures of thecharacters of Homers

Iliad are faceless to

underline the plasticity of

the movement.The sculpture is

dominated by the sense

of foretold death, where

Andromaches

desperation contrasts

with the warrior pride

of the hero.

Ettore e Andromaca G. De Chirico


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I Due Archeologi G. De Chirico

TwoArchaeologists: the

symbols of the past

seem to come out

of the hearts of the

two figures.

The love for

antiquity is

represented in this

sculpture.


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The Great

Metaphysician

unites in a single

totemic sculpture all

the symbols of De

Chiricos art: set

squares, rulers,

tools of geometric

projections and thedummy that

emerges from all

these elements.

Il Grande Metafisico G. De Chirico


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Abstract sculpture

by the Italian Pietro

Consagra in Piazza

Bilotti.

Monumento Bifrontale


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San Giorgio e il Drago S. Dal

Saint George and theDragon by Salvador

Dal, wonderfully

blends the three parts

of the bronze

sculpture: the saint,

the horse and the

dragon, in a plastic

movement that refers

to the Christiantradition of the life of

the Saint who is

faceless, almost a

quote of De Chirico.


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The Great

Bather is

characterized

by sinuous,

sensualplasticity.

La Bagnante

Emilio Greco


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Paracarri Pietro Consagra

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