Elio Talon

With the aesthetic synthesis of a more curvaceous Giacometti combined with an elegant, loose rendering such as that used by Rodin in his Burghers of Calais, Elio Talon responds to the natural properties of wet clay to generate inspired poetic interpretations of the female form, inspired by ancient images and legends of goddesses. Talon’s work may be described as raw and natural, with some figures taking on near yogic poses, the curves of their bent extremities drawing the eye around the textured, porous surface. Appropriately, Talon sites poetry as a catalyst for his working process. Transforming what is not easily said into tangible characters, Talon’s body of work moves from piece to piece, transitioning through poses and paradoxically creating movement through the medium of the still bodies he creates.

Elio Talon is a published poet and graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in 2005. He currently lives and works in Bologna, Italy.

My art has its roots in the poetry of words. I chose to devote myself to sculpture in order to bring the word to matter, and my works draw from the visions I take from the clay. I try to take humanity back to the origins of joy and love in order to permit the soul to assert its right to life. Through light I recompose matter and spirit into the clay, with a shamanic gesture to call out the archetypes of male and female, and to finally grant a unity to human experience