Cavallino stuck (1961)
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Planted on the legs and with the eyes wide open, the little horse stumbles in fear at the sight of the equine skull that appears on the left, suddenly stiffening its quivering physicality. The protagonist's tension is rendered through a nervous and incisive graphic sign, while the broad and deep contours increase the sense of plasticity, making it clear that the artist thinks first of all as a sculptor. Elia Ajolfi (Bergamo 1916-2001), formed first in the workshop of his father Francesco (together with Giacomo Manzù) and then at the Academy of Florence, is one of the great bronze sculptors of the twentieth century Italian, but also in