TOTEM

Selected Artworks

enrico magnani, contemporary artist

This series of worksbrings together full-length sculptures that embody a formal language suspended between primitive, tribal and archetypal influences, even touching on suggestions that some might call extraterrestrial. The title “Totem” captures their essence: works charged with an ancestral solemnity, endowed with an authority that is both archaic and visionary.

Polymorphous heads - synthesis of human, animal and hybrid traits - become metaphors for the infinite identities that coexist in human beings. They represent the many facets of the self: those manifest and those buried in the shadows of the subconscious, social masks and intimate truths.

These creations, through their visceral impact, invitethe viewer to an unmediated dialogue. They are not works that allow indifference: they awaken primal echoes, stimulate questions about human evolution and, above all, act as mirrors for those parts of us that rarely find expression.


Technique

Works made of clay (white or red) dried and covered with a film of epoxy resin. Painted with enamelor au naturel.

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Totem #1

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

38 x 20 x 15 cm

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Totem #3

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

33 x 22 x 17 cm

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Totem #4

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

33 x 20 x 20 cm

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Totem #5

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

36 x 20 x 14 cm

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Totem #6

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

30 x 22 x 20 cm

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Totem #8

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

42 x 25 x 25 cm

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Totem #9

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

31 x 18 x 15 cm

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Totem #10

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

38 x 18 x 15 cm

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Totem #11

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

30 x 21 x 12 cm

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Totem #12

2022

Clay, resin and enamel

58 x 31 x 21 cm

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Totem #14

2023

Clay, resin and enamel

35 x 18 x 17 cm

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Totem #15

2023

Clay, resin and enamel

40 x 20 x 18 cm

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Totem #17

2023

Clay, resin and enamel

48 x 17 x 15 cm

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Totem #20

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

31 x 17 x 17 cm

sculpture by Enrico Magnani, contemporary artist, made with clay, resin and enamel

Totem #21

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

28 x 21 x 7 cm

sculpture by Enrico Magnani, contemporary artist, made with clay, resin and enamel

Totem #22

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

36 x 20 x 10 cm

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Totem #24

2024

Clay and resin

36 x 19 x 11 cm

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Totem #25

2024

Clay and resin

36 x 19 x 11 cm

sculpture by Enrico Magnani, contemporary artist, made with clay, resin and enamel

Totem #26

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

40 x 23 x 6 cm

scupture by enrico magnani, contemporary yartist, made with clay, resin and enamel

Totem #28

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

40 x 23 x 6 cm

sculpture by Enrico Magnani, contempotrary artist, clay, enamel and resin

Totem #29 - Chacmool

2024

Clay, resin and enamel on wooden board

26 x 24 x 8 cm

sculprure by Enrico Magnani, contemporary artist, made with clay, resin and enamel

Totem #30 - Chacmool

2024

Clay, resin and enamel on wooden board

36 x 34 x 8 cm

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Totem #31

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

48 x 20 x 16 cm

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Totem #32 - Midas

2024

Clay, resin and enamel

40 x 20 x 20cm