Parco di Sculture
№ 29

Colloquio a Quattro

French limestone · 1994

Three women and a man meet in a suspended moment, a silent but intense exchange taking form through gesture and presence. The figures, reduced to essentials, are strongly abstracted, yet able to communicate an incredible variety of emotions and relationships: waiting, tension, confrontation, intimacy. The work is carved from a single block of stone, a detail that testifies to Metzler's extraordinary technical mastery. The forms seem to emerge naturally from the material, as if they had always been there, waiting to be revealed. Despite the apparent simplicity, each figure is conceived in relation to the others, in a play of volumes and voids.