Scultore · Milano
StefanoIosca
Bronze, metal and stone. Archaic forms carrying the imprint of our time, cast in an old furnace on the Milanese canals.
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Bronze, metal and stone. Archaic forms carrying the imprint of our time, cast in an old furnace on the Milanese canals.
Each body of work is a dialogue between rough, matte casting and smooth, reflective fragments.
Returning to the Casa della Luna, I want to propose two new sculptures: two Telamoni.
Historically the telamon was both structure and ornament, the carved figure that held up the entrance of a palace and stood guard over it as a sign of good fortune. Iosca recasts them as helmeted sentinels in patinated bronze, decorated with ribbons and medals.
Shown at MiMuMo, the Micro Museo of Monza, inside the fourteenth century Casa della Luna Rossa facing the Duomo. Curated by Felice Terrabuio.
Shown in Milano, Roma, Venezia, Mantova, Napoli, Paris, London and Berlin. Held in private and public collections in Italy and abroad.
He translates his ideas into bronze, alternating rough, opaque surfaces with smooth, reflective fragments.
Stefano Iosca is an Italian sculptor born in 1953. He lives and works in an old pottery furnace beside the Naviglio, surrounded by the canals of Milan.
His path began in figuration and arrived at the abstraction of his current work, passing through drawing, painting and sculpture along the way. He interprets objects handed down from ancient cultures, batons of command, shields, totemic columns, the telamon, and carries them into the present while keeping their symbolic force intact.
Material is part of the idea from the start. Each work is chosen for its medium, from cast bronze to more refined metals and stone, often combined with wax. History, culture and anthropology form his vocabulary: forms meant to catch the eye and wake an ancient memory.
Iosca works inside Fornace Curti, the Curti family terracotta furnace, active since the fifteenth century and on the Naviglio Pavese since 1900, still home to artists and artisans. “In the jungle of the city I found my Oasis.”
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For available works, commissions and studio visits in Milan, write directly to the artist or send a message on Instagram.