30 denari
A block of rough marble, formed by the pressure and patience of the earth, is pierced by a thin, rusted iron rod—tilted with apparent randomness, yet charged with precise direction.
Marble, sacred matter par excellence, a symbol of eternity, purity, and the body, is left in its natural state, uncarved. Its imperfection is its integrity. The rusted iron crosses it: it is gesture, wound, intrusion.
The work is titled 30 Denari, evoking the betrayal of Judas not as a historical episode, but as a human archetype. The oxidized metal does not represent the coin, but the cost: the mark that betrayal leaves upon the flesh of the world.
There is no blood, no face, no dramatic act. Only an absent presence, the silent echo of a rupture that cannot be mended.
30 Denarii is a sculpture on the threshold: between matter and consciousness, the sacred and the profane, resistance and surrender.
The iron, though seemingly fragile, becomes eternal weight.