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Lussazione volontaria dell’anca (Voluntary hip luxation) - Superficie Totale
Voluntary dislocation of the hip. Dr. Davide Giordano, Milan 1893. Photocopy in b & w on cardboard, 42 X 29.6 cm.
Voluntary dislocation of the hip. Dr. Davide Giordano, Milan 1893. Photocopy in b & w on cardboard, 42 X 29.6 cm.
Voluntary dislocation of the hip. Dr. Davide Giordano, Milan 1893. Photocopy in b & w on cardboard, 42 X 29.6 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Pencil on wrapping paper, 35 X 45.5 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Ink on wrapping paper, 37.5 X 23.8 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Pencil on Fabriano paper and tracing paper, 33 X 44 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Pencil on Fabriano paper, 40 X 27.5 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Pencil on Fabriano paper and tracing paper, 35 X 41 cm.
Study for "Voluntary Dislocation of the Hip". Pencil on Fabriano paper and tracing paper, 35 X 41 cm.

Lussazione volontaria dell’anca (Voluntary hip luxation)

1982


Final exam of Anatomy for artists,
Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.

At the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice I attended anatomy lessons and I was offered reference models belonging to the figurative tradition. Complex models full of golden rules, relationships between the parts and general harmonies.

I drew; I tried to stick to the didactic instructions but the idea that those models had little to do with reality persisted in me. The bodies I knew, saw and touched often turned out to be asymmetrical, perhaps slightly, imperfect and not at all sculptural.

Asymmetries and exceptions to the norm have always attracted me and so I decided that I could no longer design a perfectly aseptic world, too perfect and therefore inhuman.

It was then that my models and my studies became interested in hip dislocation. A simple and obedient way to ignore the instructions in the classic didactic practice. It was then that I told the world that the perfect body does not exist.