Alberto Scodro

8. In Talpidae (2023) thirteen casts of mole burrows are assembled into a sculpture with a striking vertical presence. Each element, sinuous and dynamic, reveals the shape of an environment that is invisible and inaccessible to humans. Extracted directly from the underground, these structures are not only elegant and complex formal gestures, but also vital epiphanies—emerging signs of unseen life.
Yet the process is also painful: the burrows are removed through an invasive act, echoing human interventions in nature and prompting reflection on the impact of our actions. The work draws attention to “other” worlds that silently coexist with ours—a call to reconsider adaptation in a society increasingly ravaged by consumption.

26. – 32. With the Sunflowers (2020/23), Scodro addresses the human desire to give form to the invisible—or rather, to what remains beyond our reach. In this sense, the work engages with the Absolute: an ancestral theme in art, bound to the quest for understanding what defies comprehension.
Scodro translates this tension into concrete forms, using as a metaphor a physical reality we perceive only indirectly: the Earth’s rotation. This movement is made visible through the figure of the sunflower—a flower that turns its head toward the light of the sun.
The artist unites biology and sculpture by cultivating sunflowers and following their natural cycle, from seed to bloom, before transforming them into sculptures using the lost-wax casting technique. At 1300 degrees Celsius, matter becomes a blinding white light: a symbolic and transfiguring act.
These Sunflowers become small terrestrial suns—tangible signs of a dialogue between plant and planet, human gesture and cosmic motion. They serve as visual and conceptual traces of a yearning toward the invisible, made manifest in the daily life of a flower, in its pursuit of light, and in its relationship with time and space.