Parco di Sculture
№ 08

Stella, Bozzetto per Teatro del Silenzio

Iron, final work in aluminium · 2010

This sculpture is the preparatory model for one of Metzler's most iconic works, created for Andrea Bocelli's renowned Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico, province of Pisa.

The star is a powerfully evocative symbol. Metzler reinterprets it as a radiating constellation of meanings, where each point represents a fragment of our world. Some hold natural elements, birds, animals, plants, while others are dedicated to the artificial and urban world, cars, buildings, architecture.

At the centre of the star, however, we find neither technology nor nature, but something more intimate: the family. For Metzler, this is the essential nucleus of desire, the point of balance between opposing forces. The human heart in an ever-expanding universe.

The final version of the work, twelve metres tall, was made in aluminium and placed as the central scenographic element of the great 2010 concert at the Teatro del Silenzio. On that occasion, alongside Andrea Bocelli also performed Zucchero, José Carreras, Roberto Bolle and Gina Lollobrigida. An event that brought together music, art and spirituality in a wordless dialogue, perfectly in line with the silent poetics of this work.