Parco di Sculture
№ 42

Rolling Head 1 (Modello per Torre del Lago Puccini)

Bronze · 2001

Rolling Head 1 is the first example of one of the most emblematic series of Kurt Laurenz Metzler's mature phase, that of the Rolling Heads. This sculptural cycle was born after a trip to Mexico in the early 2000s, during which the artist was deeply struck by the iconography of pre-Columbian temples, in particular by a mural depicting a sleeping head from which forms and dreams emerged in relief. In this bronze model, Metzler crystallises a theatrical concept: a monumental head, serving both as base and as imaginative generator, supports above it a scene animated by musicians and performers. The project was conceived for the Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Lago, where the sculpture would have stood on the lake's water as a floating stage.