Spatari produced this work as the bearing structure of the grape arbour near the former level-crossing keeper’s lodge of the Calabro Lucane railway in Santa Barbara.
Technique: paintend concrete
Size: h.6 x 2 x 2 meters
The most impressive work in the Park has, at the same time, became the symbol of MuSaBa. It expressed various objective shapes which were uplifted to infinity: “sunbeams”, “the sailer”, “the cathedral”. The work towers over the rocks in Santa Barbara and it is visible from throughout the valley. The work was carried out with the help of local students.
Technique: paintend concrete
Size: 7 x 10 x 2,50 meters
This work, demolished in 2000 because of its deterioration, was one of the most widely appreciated works in the Park for over 15 years. Designed and made by Spatari for an international scholastic meeting, it was a “habitable” work, with its entrance in the Dragon’s tale and the exit from his mouth. It was visited by thousands of enthusiastic young boys and girls.
Technique: chestnut wood
Size: 30 x 4.50 x 3 meters
The “Punk”, obtained from a gigantic olive trunk, and completed with stones, is placed at the top of the flight of steps leading to the “Chamaleon”.
Technique: olive wood and stone
Size: 3.30 x 1.20 meters
Technique:
concrete for the structure and filling with colored glass bottles
In summer 2001, the SaBaLizards project (Lizards in Saint Barbara) began. The long-term project included a series of sculptures-structures and big paintings-murals on lizards, designed by international artists. The first, big structure was a project developed by Spatari/Maas: a gigantic, mosaic lizard.
Technique: iron, concrete, painting, stone, wood, glass, rhinestones sea, terracotta, ceramics, mirrors.
Size: 10 x 3.50 x 1.20 meters
At the core of the guest room’s garth, Spatari created a 15-metre iron sculpture, a gigantic, gangling male figure towering towards the sky and the sideral space, nicknamed “The evening shadow”, recalling a famous small Etruscan bronze of an African man (Le Ombre della Sera) of 200 b.C.. Giacometti himself was inspired throughout his career by this small bronze sculpture.
Through this work, Spatari honoured the memory of the Etruscan society. It is a well-known fact that the Etruscans, and their Villanovian ancestors first, had settled in Calabria also during the golden period in the Locride, Medma, Hipponion, and Kaulon areas. Experts in international archaelogy-architecture have confirmed this belief, since they have attributed the project of the roofs of the temples, the frontons with horses and the Locride Dioscuri to the Etruscans. The frontons of temples in the Etruscan-Roman city of Tarquinia display identical horses.
Technique: concrete for the structure covered with colored ceramics
