Maicol Borghetti, Visual Artist from Pietrasanta, Versilia, Italy
Bronze Sculpture and Fine Art Photography. The Archaeology of the Future
Mythos and Protos Series. Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture and Fine Art Prints
Maicol Borghetti is a visual artist from Pietrasanta, Versilia, Italy. His ongoing project, The Archaeology of the Future, unfolds across two media — bronze sculpture and fine art photography — and currently develops through the Mythos and Protos series. Represented by Liquid Art System in Positano, Capri, Anacapri, Ravello, and Miami. Bronze sculptures are cast at the Fonderia Artistica Versiliese in Pietrasanta, a foundry with over fifty years of history.
The Archaeology of the Future — Manifesto Lines
The Archaeology of the Future — digging for civilizations entirely human, yet not quite our own.
Photographs and bronzes — two ways of saying the same thing.
I never close the door with a title — every work stays open so each person can enter with their own eyes.
Caught between worlds — figures suspended where myth dissolves into memory.
Every collector joins the excavation — bringing to light another piece of a civilization still becoming.
Gallery — Selected Works from the Mythos and Protos Series
About the Project
The Archaeology of the Future is an imaginary archaeology. Bronze figures and photographs that feel ancient and unrecognisable at once, as if excavated from a civilization that ran parallel to ours and left only its beauty behind. Other humanities, lost in time. Proto-myths: things that existed before us and will remain after us.
Photographs and bronzes are two ways of saying the same thing. A photograph freezes a figure at one exact moment, from one exact angle. A sculpture is like a photograph you can walk around, seeing it from every side. Each work carries no title and no date — only a code, a certificate, and a photograph. Beauty is the door. Everything that happens after, inside, belongs to the viewer.
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Maicol Borghetti, Pietrasanta, Versilia, Italy