Feel deer by Simone Benedetto
With Feel Deer, Simone Benedetto continues his exploration of the child figure as an image of transformation and connection with nature. The sculpture portrays a child undergoing a silent metamorphosis, in which the branches emerging from the head symbolically evoke the presence of the deer: an ancestral animal associated with sensitivity, instinct, and deep listening.
The artist: Simone Benedetto
Simone Benedetto was born in Turin in 1985 and graduated with honors in Sculpture and Plastic Arts from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti. His research focuses on the figure of the child as a symbolic device of psychological transformation. The child is never represented as a fixed identity, but as an evolving organism, suspended between human and animal states. Through extremely precise modelling, the artist gives visible form to the inner process of change that accompanies growth. Each work becomes a hybrid sculptural image in which animal elements emerge from the child’s body itself. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad and lives and works in Turin.
Description of “Feel deer”
In Feel Deer, the child figure appears suspended in a contemplative and fragile dimension. The branches rising from the head suggest a slow and natural transformation, in which the deer emerges as an inner symbolic presence rather than a literal figure. The artwork becomes a poetic image of growth, listening, and deep connection with the natural world.
Conclusion
Within WILD SOULS, Feel Deer contributes to the dialogue on the primal relationship between human beings and nature. The sculpture expresses a delicate metamorphosis in which human, animal, and vegetal elements coexist within the same evolving identity. The artwork is on view at the Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE until June 13.