Inhuman Being

Inhuman Being

Inhuman Being

By: Edoardo Lucci, 2001
Medium: cast bronze
Size: 85mm
Cast by: Lunts Casting
Edition: 25

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Edoardo Lucci (b. 1976) was born in Rome. Having studied drawing, illustration, computer graphic design and photography at Rome’s Nicola Zabaglia School in 1996-8, he went on to the Scuola dell’Arte della Medaglia, from where he graduated in 2001. He has also worked as a scene-painter. He began to work for the Italian mint in the Autumn of 2001. About his BAMS medal the artist writes: ‘The face of a man and his thoughts merge into each other. What follows is an awareness of the contradiction between human and artificial thought. A part of the man’s face is objectively conscious of the contradiction, while the other part grieves for it. Waves spread out from the man’s head, symbolising the human folly that is regularly confirmed by history. The smooth, undulating surfaces of both sides of the medal symbolise the continuous and cyclical changes of nature, and contrast with the inhuman being who forgets his origins, his centre, his balance, his becoming… The three steps symbolise the repetitiveness (the blind loop) of the inhuman being. The last of these steps, inscribed INHUMAN BEING, represents humanity’s instinct to overcome nature, and so also itself.’