Parco di Sculture
№ 38

Gatta da Letto

Bronze · 2000

With this work, Metzler continues his research into hybrids between human and animal, creating a sculpture of strong symbolic and emotional charge. La Gatta da letto belongs to a series of anthropomorphic sculptures in which the female body merges with feline traits, evoking desire, seduction, but also ambiguity and instinct. Laid out in a sensual pose on a bed sculpted with great mastery, the figure dominates the scene, but is far from being merely an object of desire. The bed becomes a symbolic space of exchange: at its ends two key elements appear. On one side, a figure alluding to money, what the figure demands. On the other, the heart, what she offers in return: love, affection, or perhaps the illusion of these. A silent dramaturgy on power, body and female identity.