Concrete cube
with glass chandelier
2024
Concrete, rebar, and glass chandelier, 75 x 120 cm
This work consists of a concrete cube with a glass chandelier stuck inside of it. The idea is simple: letting an object sink into the cement until it hardens and traps the object forever, eliminating its functionality and bringing it into the sculpture realm. As if just fallen from the eighteenth-century ceiling of Palazzo Diedo, Golia freezes the moment in the contrast between the fragility of glass and the imperishable eternity of concrete, metaphorically referring to the relationship between tradition and modernization.
Photos by Massimo Pistore
Untitled (floor)
2024
Metal platform, materials for unfinished Venetian terrazzo floor, and a construction worker
This work is an ongoing experience that will take place in two phases in which Golia shows us the reality of things as they happen, considering the work as an evolving experience. While awaiting the realization of the permanent project in the traditional Venetian terrazzo technique, Golia, which always refers to time and process, puts us in front of the materials that will be used to build it, stacked like a minimalist sculpture.
Sitting above, almost like a Rodin's Thinker, a construction worker with his presence "activates the work" waiting to start building the floor.