Leonardo Nava

Radicamenti is the work that Leonardo Nava created for the Studio Museo Francesco Messina in Milan.

The sculpture is part of the research that is conducting in the relationship sculpture-environment, monumental sculpture and architecture. He intervened on the building of the ex Church of San Sisto that hosts the Museum Messina, relating both with the inside of the historical building and with the urban space of the city of Milan.

It seemed to him necessary and "natural" to put in dialogue inside and outside. To do so, he would have had to cross the walls and bring the energy that would be manifested outside to the interior.  In this way the space of architecture, the relationship between full and empty, would have been complete. At the same time the relationship between the outside, the city, and the inside of the museum could have been redefined.

With unexpected natural force the sculpture erupts from the massive stone floor to climb and envelop the architecture.The natural forces reconfigure the history and cultural stratification of the former Church of San Sisto and, in an alternation of strength and delicacy, run through its geometries. The protagonist is nature that through the work returns to manifest itself in space with all its original energy.

Homomorphisms / portrait with gash, 2019

The sculpture was previewed in 2019 in the prestigious venue of the Natural History Museum of Venice, promoted by the direction of the MUVE of Murano in conjunction with the third edition of The Venice Glass Week.

The exhibition presented the unpublished works of the artist, who has long dedicated himself to investigating "the energy situated more internally, which belongs to the suspension of poetry, with a projection into the non-visible, into the body of sensation".

Ritratto con gastro is the most recent work of the research he is carrying out, in which he continues to explore the link between nature and man.