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Sculptures by
The sculptures of David Booker seem to arise spontaneously from the spots where they are placed. Recalls of extraordinary vividness evoke the ancestral memory of our terrestrial vicissitudes. Figures without time and without face, characters of a private mythology where the humanity is revealed in universal gestures, simple but sacred: If they walk they proceed, if they stop they remain, if they carry they support, hold on. Naciketas, The Lost Boy and The Violet Boy act as a bridge between the public space rationally designed, and the personal "ego", the individual authentic identity,: they overlook the space and capture the soul. The Exile-pillar, The Solitary-column, the big Totem, the caryatid-figures, are plastic symbols still and monumental, to refer to lived space: clear signs of the willingness to integrate architectonic site with everlasting presences. David Booker's work keep the primitives fascination. The forms, even in their expressive originality, refer to archetypal models. The compositive essentiality join the synthesis of the volumes. The structural solidity circumscribe and restrain the reckless alternation of plastic excitement and empty space. Material grows dense, in rough surfaces, then it flows among smoothing island and open in surprise, (like the colour in The Violet Boy and the rare polished surfaces on blue-grey marble).
From marks of digged up forms, the effort to live comes up. Minutes, minimum fragments of material scattered around, so many around him, give the idea of undefined time. Each sound of sculpting runs after the eco of the preceding one. All of a sudden silence. Then he starts again. Body, arm, mallet, iron, chisel, block, leg, strength, thought, rhythm, stroke and caress: all is one.
David walks on the splinters, and he is a sculptor-man. davidbooker@davide.it
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DAVID BOOKER
the watertight bulkhead that separate the men from the sculpture, sculpture from life"
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