Scultura: Porta dell’acqua Rapolano Terme

Modern Sculrura placed at the entrance of the Water Park, in front of Terme Antica Querciolaia

The author
Pietro Cascella (Pescara 1921 - Pietrasanta 2008) studied at the Academy of Rome and gained early success as a painter, his father's footsteps, participating in the Fourth Quadrennial of Rome (1943) and the XXIV Venice Biennale (1948). From the early fifties he devoted himself to sculpture in stone and bronze, and opened a small studio with his brother and his future wife Anna Maria Cesarini. In 1957 he took part in the competition for the "Auschwitz monument" with a project carried out by his brother Andrew and the architect Julio Lafuente: after many vicissitudes is a project created by Peter himself and the architect Giorgio Simoncini, then realized in 1967, considered one of the masterpieces of the artist. In 1971 he participated in the XXII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture in Paris, he held an exhibition at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels and gets a solo show at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan. Henceforth his work focuses on a series of monumental works that combine social commitment and projects on an urban scale: the monument to the Resistance for the city of Massa Carrara (1979), Monument to the everyday to the Cathedral Square Pescina at the Eagle (1980). Since 1982 began a fruitful collaboration with the city of Parma and the Barilla factory, where he created the work One Hundred Years of work. Since 1984, together with Mauro Berrettini and his second wife, Cordelia von den Steinen, working on the project of "Field of the Sun", a sculpture park created in Tuoro sul Trasimeno thanks to the collaboration of many artists, many urban interventions that follow ( the fountains of Chiavari and the Ship of Pescara), and to be announced the staging of Turandot for the 50th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (2004). The Water Gate, set within a beautiful space at the Water Park Source Arunte Rapolano Terme, near the thermal baths, recovers, through the travertine honed, the solemnity of certain architectures of the thirties: an archaic structure which expresses power and energy through elementary forms and articulated volumes that recall the influence of primitive art as a contemporary sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi.