Belfagor is an astronaut’s helmet on a sarcophagus plinth. It's the attempt to capture the space surrounding sculpture and give nothingness a physical shape. Void has no boundaries, but even though the statue is solid it may give you a sense of it. The name is taken from a French TV series of the Sixties, Belphégor, le phantôme du Louvre, which haunts the Egyptian Collection of the Museum. 

Belfagor was carved by hand from shell limestone (pietra di Vicenza). The second, slightly modified version of the statue is made of polyurethane painted white.

Visual samples, printed on pencil drawings or drawn with ink. The individual sheets are arranged according to a system modeled on the Sephiroth.

The work consists of 32 handmade tablets (size 26.5 x 19.5 cm) made of red clay and painted with black and white engobe. It is in a private collection in Rome. Each tile has a hollow back and was fixed with nails. The work even withstood an earthquake! The basic elements of the drawings are ten individual silhouettes, musical notes or letters of an imaginary alphabet, which are combined to create a tune.

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