“Fiume Sand Creek” by Fabrizio De André becomes a sculpture

“He shot an arrow at the sky to make it breathe”. It is one of the most powerful lines of “Fiume Sand Creek”the song from the album known as “The Indian” with which Fabrizio De André he told one of the most dramatic pages of Native American history, transforming it into civil poetry.

Today that evocative image becomes a sculpture: “Sand Creek”the artist’s work Richi Ferrero for the Building Group which was installed in the public space of Varigottion the Ligurian Riviera.

The sculpture, made in steel and fiberglasswas born as a tribute to the narrative strength of De André’s song and transforms one of its most iconic passages into a three-dimensional scene suspended between sky and sea.

At the center of the work is located a boat lifted by a metallic wavewith two characters on board: one, at the bow, is frozen in the act of shooting an arrow towards the sky; the other, at the stern, with long oars seeks an unstable balance. An image that recalls the movement of the sea but also the poetic tension of the song, made of memory, pain and the search for freedom.

“De André’s music has always had an extraordinary visual force”, says the artist Richi Ferrero. “When I thought about this sculpture I focused precisely on that gesture of the arrow: a simple but very powerful act, which in the song becomes a cry for breath and freedom. I tried to transform that same image into a scene suspended in space”.

The choice to dedicate the work to De André takes on a particular value in Liguria, the land of the Genoese singer-songwriter and a place deeply linked to his artistic sensitivity.

The sculpture was installed in front of the residential complex 17024Varigottiproject created by Building Groupwho chose to integrate art and public space within the architectural intervention.