Manuel Quaresima

“Icaro” is a body forged from mechanical fragments forgotten pieces of an industrial past, reborn into a new form. Bolts, gears, and twisted plates carry memories, pulsing within the iron’s raw, interwoven structure. The figure rises in a moment of sublime tension, legs twisting like roots breaking free from the earth, one arm reaching not just outward, but upward as invocation. There is no triumph, no fall, only the eternal instant of the attempt. A soul that burns to go beyond. A material that, reclaimed, dares to dream again.

Self-taught Italian sculptor shaping human figures from reclaimed iron. My work delves into inner struggle, transformation, and the sacred tension between fall and ascent. Each sculpture embodies raw emotion and silent resilience, forged from matter that has lived other lives. Through welding and fracture, I seek to reveal the beauty hidden in pain and the spiritual force within the material.