Aldo Mozzini, 1956
Art
Jury report
“Quasi Cane” is the laconic title of Aldo Mozzini’s work comprising a pile of plastic waste produced by the artist himself over the course of a year covered with paint-stained rags of the kind used in printing works to clean tools and machines. Mozzini has fashioned this accumulation of material into the shape of a four-legged animal—a quadruped that is, as the title suggests, almost a dog. For this material is worn out, just as the animal sprawled on the floor appears worn out and exhausted. “Quasi Cane” is remarkable in its simplicity—a simplicity that is pregnant with poetry—but also in its sculptural and formal originality. This is a work that, while eschewing loquacity, manages to speak of something existential.