Parco di Sculture
№ 36

Duomo

Bronze · 1992

This elegant bronze sculpture is far more than an architectural homage: it is a miniaturised urban dream. Duomo was created in 1992 as Kurt Laurenz Metzler's first Tuscan work and draws inspiration from the forms of Florence's famous dome, transforming them into abstract and dynamic bodies. The long arched legs and the geometric heads seem to merge with the imagined building: human beings becoming architecture, a recurring theme in the artist's work since the mid-1980s. Metzler imagined this sculpture as a real building, with two habitable floors, glass side walls, and moving spire-heads that turn each hour in a different direction. In Duomo, the human figure does not inhabit the architecture: it is the architecture. A symbol of rootedness, but also of tension toward the sky, as in the great Gothic projects.