Parco di Sculture
№ 31

Colloquio Cittadino 2

French limestone · 1995

In this sculpture, Metzler develops his reflection on the relationship between the individual and the city, but does so by breaking the space into overlapping layers, as if the urban environment were seen in section, cut and analysed like an organism. The human figure, by now almost completely dissolved, is absorbed by a stratified architecture suggesting vertical movement, density, overlapping of functions, eras, stories. It is a conversation no longer between people, but between layers of city communicating in time and space. Unlike the previous sculpture, here the stone is left rough, as if to underline the materiality of urban thought, its hardness but also its imperfection and transience. A work that speaks of transformation, loss of identity, and belonging.