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Fine Art for Jago, contemporary sculptor of international fame
FERCAM has signed a partnership agreement with Jago: our Fine Art team will take care of transporting his artworks to their various exhibition venues.
The artist has chosen to benefit from the expertise and specialist advice of the FERCAM Fine Art team that, in addition to handling transport in full safety, has mediated the relationship with various museums and supported in the definition of insurance plans.
"It is a truly prestigious collaboration", comments Chiara Prisco, Head of the Fine Art Business Unit. "We are delighted to have been able to build what we hope is the basis of a lasting partnership with an artist who not only has genuine talent and a very interesting vision, but entrepreneurial intelligence and wide awareness of his historical-social context. In our field we rarely have the opportunity to know the author of the works we transport, to collaborate in designing exhibition spaces and modes of transport: it is already an emotional experience, and we are just at the beginning".
The transport of “Pietà” is also being planned. This piece is still being sculpted, but has already been claimed by numerous institutions and galleries. For FERCAM, this project establishes a particular parallelism with the historical past of the company: in 1964, Gondrand accompanied Michelangelo's "Pietà" in New York, on its only journey ever.
"It is a truly prestigious collaboration", comments Chiara Prisco, Head of the Fine Art Business Unit. "We are delighted to have been able to build what we hope is the basis of a lasting partnership with an artist who not only has genuine talent and a very interesting vision, but entrepreneurial intelligence and wide awareness of his historical-social context. In our field we rarely have the opportunity to know the author of the works we transport, to collaborate in designing exhibition spaces and modes of transport: it is already an emotional experience, and we are just at the beginning".
The transport of “Pietà” is also being planned. This piece is still being sculpted, but has already been claimed by numerous institutions and galleries. For FERCAM, this project establishes a particular parallelism with the historical past of the company: in 1964, Gondrand accompanied Michelangelo's "Pietà" in New York, on its only journey ever.
The transport of “Pietà”
When the Fine Art team visited Jago's atelier in Naples last November, the plaster cast already heralded the touching expressiveness that the artist is extracting with surgical precision from the marble block. Jago’s “Pietà” reverses the gender roles of the classical iconography: it depicts a man holding a helpless young woman in his arms. His face, distraught, disfigured with anguish. An impressive project, a delicate and precious work, which will have to travel from the church of Sant’Aspreno to the exhibition site in Rome. To accompany the sculpture along this journey, Jago has chosen to rely on FERCAM Fine Art’s extensive know-how.
What does this project entail?
The project, of distinctly consultative nature, sees our experts work alongside the sculptor step by step to outline each transport and installation detail. The transport crate, a scale model of which was presented to the artist during the first collaborative study phase, is custom designed to accommodate the articulated structure of the statue. The preparatory plaster cast made it possible to estimate measures of the finished artwork and thus to proceed with construction, even before the sculpture was completed. The last stages will be dedicated to on-site assembly, to place the support elements in direct contact with the marble.
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Crate manufacturing
The first step for our technical team consisted in taking the artwork’s measurements, and then they could proceed with the case design. For the side and top panels, a minimum thickness of 25 mm plywood is used, cut to size and carefully refinished. The base is made with crossed beams, so that it can support weights over one ton without undergoing deformation. It is composed of a pine or fir board, 5 mm thick, affixed to supporting battens that allow it to be palletized. Above a layer of high-strength polyethylene is placed, 70 mm thick, arranged in bands, so that the weight of the sculpture is properly discharged on the underlying piles and vibrations are not transmitted to the precious content.
The stamp phase is important to indicate the correct direction and to give instructions for transport: we therefore affix arrows, a glass icon for fragility and an umbrella to indicate that the contents fear humidity. Some black triangles placed on the connection points of the side panels also help to easily recognize the structure during assembly.
You can place a sculpture in the transport crate by sliding or lifting it. After this, comes the most delicate phase of the preparation, which requires even greater precision and a lot of patience: is the placement of anchoring elements. The goal is making it impossible for the artwork to move inside its box and unloading the weight on the right spots. We place supports in correspondence with the most delicate points, studying the correct placement of the packaging materials, step by step. Once this phase is completed, we are finally ready to close the crate and get on with the transport.
The stamp phase is important to indicate the correct direction and to give instructions for transport: we therefore affix arrows, a glass icon for fragility and an umbrella to indicate that the contents fear humidity. Some black triangles placed on the connection points of the side panels also help to easily recognize the structure during assembly.
You can place a sculpture in the transport crate by sliding or lifting it. After this, comes the most delicate phase of the preparation, which requires even greater precision and a lot of patience: is the placement of anchoring elements. The goal is making it impossible for the artwork to move inside its box and unloading the weight on the right spots. We place supports in correspondence with the most delicate points, studying the correct placement of the packaging materials, step by step. Once this phase is completed, we are finally ready to close the crate and get on with the transport.
Jago, the artist who challenges the great Italian masters’ sculptural masterpieces
They called him the "new Michelangelo" and lately he has dedicated his energies to the creation of his own contemporary “Pietà”. From the Big Apple he found his way back to Italy, bringing to Naples the artworks that were already famous overseas. In the Sanità district, inside the small church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi, he focuses on his latest creation, guarded by some of his previous works.
In love with the great art masters, rebellious to the precepts of the Academy, self-taught and daring: Jago is an artist who has brought to life his unequalled inspirations, by rolling up his sleeves and actively promoting his personal brand and message. A contemporary humanist, he humbly proposes himself alongside artists who had the courage to hand over their work to history, encouraging his audience to come forward and take action to leave their mark on the world too.
In love with the great art masters, rebellious to the precepts of the Academy, self-taught and daring: Jago is an artist who has brought to life his unequalled inspirations, by rolling up his sleeves and actively promoting his personal brand and message. A contemporary humanist, he humbly proposes himself alongside artists who had the courage to hand over their work to history, encouraging his audience to come forward and take action to leave their mark on the world too.
