Stephen Cox (Bristol, 1946 – )
Stephen Cox was invited to Celleafter he had lived in Florence in the 1980s. He conceived his installation as a contemporary emblem designed for the facade of the fattoria, creating a connection with the historical architecture of Celle’s buildings. The high west facade of the fattoriais adorned with a modular sculpture, consisting of five parts, which serves as a kind of reminder of the importance of the five senses but also became a fragmented portrait of Giuliano Gori. In this work, you can recognize hands, ears, mouth, eyes, and a nose. To create these forms in stone, the artist first made plaster casts of the collector’s face and hand: Giuliano Gori was invited to lie down on the kitchen table of the farmhouse while bandages soaked in plaster were applied to his prepared skin. In a later stage, the stones were selected, ordered and worked, taking the form of five differently colored oval marbles.
