Parco di Sculture
№ 11

Collaborazione (Spares)

Bronze · 2019–2022

This sculpture is among the most intimate and moving in all of Metzler's production. Made in the midst of his illness, it took shape between 2019 and 2022, in a period marked by vulnerability but also by lucid creativity.

The subject is a figure with three heads. A strange, almost surreal vision, which carries a powerful metaphor. The resilience of identity, even when undermined by the body. Metzler, who suffered six strokes between 2017 and 2019, rethinks his own condition in this multi-headed figure. As he liked to say, with irony and clarity: If one stops working, I have two in reserve.

It is a work that speaks of survival and adaptation, but also of inner cooperation. The three heads do not fight each other, do not overlap. They cooperate, help each other, support each other. In a world that often rewards performance and absolute uniqueness, Metzler reverses the paradigm. Strength lies in plurality, in solidarity between parts of oneself.

Formally too, the bronze conveys a sense of solidity and resistance, as if to fix in time the dignity of fragility. Collaborazione (Spares) is therefore much more than a sculpted autobiography. It is a hymn to the possibility of reinventing oneself, even in illness. A human and artistic lesson. When one voice falls silent, there are others ready to continue the dialogue.