From this wall, as blue as the Mediterranean and the sky of Nice ( Caeli ), emerge the busts of three divinities: Poseidon, god of the sea, Amphitrite, his wife and, between them, Pegasus, the winged horse, son of the god and the gorgon Medusa.
The three of them face us as if to better invite us to enter this building which they seem to be guarding.
This park-and-ride invites us, in fact, to change vehicles, to abandon individual transport in favour of collective transport, in an eco-responsible approach.
By summoning these ancient tutelary figures, César Malfi places our societal questions in a broader context, linking environmental action and the historical dimension through culture.
In this aesthetic of fragmentation which is his trademark, the artist summons the antique and the modern, alternating sculpted faces and linear lines borrowed from Fernand Léger.
Its black and regular graphics thus wind between the marble volumes to complete them, desacralize them, make them more accessible.
Parc d'Azur Management, Nice Gorbella, April 2023.
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