Parco di Sculture
№ 40

Golda (Guerriera)

Iron with engine parts · 1979

Golda is not just a warrior: she is a figure laden with memory, metal and ideology. Made in 1979, this sculpture belongs to the Motormenschen series, motor-beings, in which Kurt Laurenz Metzler explores the human being transformed by technology. But here, beyond the machine, there is political history. The name Golda inevitably evokes Golda Meir, first prime minister of Israel, and with her the entire symbolic weight of a strong, combative female figure, embedded in a reality of tension and resistance. Metzler builds her an armoured body of iron and engine parts, almost a tank that has taken human form. This warrior does not fight with a sword, but with the ambiguity of her own body: woman, machine, political icon. She has no tender features: she has bolts, axles, sheet metal. Symbol of an era in which power had to become structure, armour, casing.