AG Sinnwerke 2000

Alfio Giuffrida made this sculpture, AG Sinnwerke, from metal. Just looking at the image I can imagine the heat, the bending, the welding. It looks like an armature - perhaps a support for a future artwork? It’s a strange object, as it is at once very solid and very light. The lines almost disappear into the white background. It's the ghost of a sculpture. Maybe Giuffrida was interested in stripping away the inessential? Just leaving the bare bones. I see a figure, but I also see the process of its making. It makes me wonder if it’s a functional object? Or just a set of ideas about the potentiality of form. Artists are always in conversation, across time. I think of artists like Eva Hesse, and the way she embraced vulnerability in her sculptures. Like her work, this piece invites multiple readings, but resists any one definitive answer.