500 Bad Italian Sculptors

O.k. -- there's not really 500 of them (only 488)
and not all of them are bad
(especially the one shown above,
by Francesco Messina )(whose admirers have made another website for him here

But Messina (1900-1995) comes from the great generation
of European sculptors -- and almost everyone else on
this site
is at least 50 years younger.

(note: an explanation for this site
can be found here , but my Italian is too primitive to translate it)


Rino Giannini

And actually -- there's several more
that I liked from the site,
although most of them, like this sculptor ,
are at least as old as I am




Rino Giannini

A full length, nude self portrait
at the age of 40 ?!?!

He's a bolder man than I am !
(and also quite a technician,
since this standing figure is terracotta)








Vanni Penone

A rather obvious homage to a similar piece by the great Martini


Marcello Giannozzi

I really like this piece,
but as happened so often on this site,
it's the only piece by him that I enjoyed.



Marco Cornini

I guess this story is rather obvious,
but I like obvious
(and I hope it's not the girl's father
who picks up the phone)




Mario Pecoraino



Massimo Galleni

For whatever reason,
Italians have always been nuts about marble,
and many will still commit themselves
to achieving a high level of proficiency





Francesco Stefan



Giacomo Ceccarelli




Gino Molisano



Adriano Bozzolo



Adriano Bozzolo





Alberto Inglesi


Anna Maria Ferrari




Anna Maria Ferrari

Anna Maria seems to be my favorite
of the younger (born after 1950) sculptors shown on this site.




Alba Gonzales

And finally, I chose this one to
speculate on all the stuff that I didn't like.

Because I'm sure that Alba could make something
that pleases me,
but he feels this insane compulsion
to make something bizarre,
i.e. recognizably contemporary.