Forty huge scultures in pure white Carrara marble or bronze are arranged in ten sequences of four to illustrate the symbolic perfection of the sphere, the vertigo of the universe, space and time, the evolution of matter, the immensity of nature, the origins of man and the miracle of life. Jorge Jimenez Deredia is a universal artist, born in Costa Rica, but Italian by adoption, an expert on the Renaissance and the first non-European in the new millennium to be asked to create a sculpture for St. Peter's in Rome.
The exhibition is hosted in the splendid and recently restored Lemon House in the Boboli Gardens (carried out by Zanobi Del Rosso during the reign of the Lorraines), the perfect setting for an artistic event that celebrates the mysteries of the Creation, a real obsession with Deredia The sphere inspires an explosion of increasingly complex sculptures, huge and mysterious, that give life to man and then woman. Deredia's main source of inspiration however comes from the spheres of the Boruca people, an ancient civilisation that lived in the south of Costa Rica up until the arrival of Columbus. The artist came to study in Florence while still very young and fell in love with the work of Brunelleschi, Alberti and Michelaangelo. Today he lives and works near the marble quarries of Carrara. His work is the result of an indestructible vocation and a deeply rooted mission that sees art as energy and cosmic light
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