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The anatomy of machinery parts is as effective and functional as the structures that allow life to exist in the bodies of living beings. Although, unlike them, their origin is artificial and industrial, their structure can suggest a living appearance or that at some point they may have been animated.
I perceive the hard geometry of these industrial parts, the primitive quality in their mechanical angularity; the quality of bone, of a structural element at the service of a greater purpose, which, once that purpose has been left behind and the structure disassembled, is reduced to its own form, a condition that leaves the parts in a strange attitude.
“Objects break or are destroyed according to the internal laws of the matter that composes them: their destruction reveals the secret of their essential structure. When acting upon things, man uses a prefabricated material, and in destroying, he submits to the secret laws of that material. The artist’s mission is, on the one hand, to reveal the beauty that exists in works of destruction produced by chance or by the action of time. Faced with this unmatched artifice of infinite resources, the artist inclines himself. By pointing out the beauty of an object that has suffered the action of time, the artist develops a true act of creation, since to create is to make inert matter acquire meaning and life for man.”
— A. Pellegrini, Fundamentos para una estética de la destrucción (1961)