Cesare Arduini

Few sculptors successfully transcend the line between craftsman and artist; Cesare Arduini, an Italian who lived and worked in the Bronx, was one of them. Drawing on his years of experience as a master marble worker, he created dynamic, wholly unique works of sculpture which do not merely defy gravity, but his practical roots as well.

Arduini's work reveals the inherent beauty of stone—its varying shapes, densities, and grains. His sculptures, carved in tightly geometric shapes, incorporate other materials in addition to marble—onyx, granite, corrugated metal, and oak—and are often as figural as abstract, ranging from the contemplation of subjects as tactile and real as the human face, to ideas as opaque and ponderous as clanship and chaos.