Trophies

Renowned sculptor Guido Moretti has donated the trophies (First, Second and Third prizes) for this year’s contest (www.guidomoretti.it)

“I have always loved drawings that evoke three-dimensional figures. Drawings creating the illusion of an “absurd solid” have always attracted me. The drawing of a cube in perspective creates the illusion of a three-dimensional cube. If I transfer this or that drawing of another solid onto the sides of a “real” cube and apply the orthogonal intersection method, the result is a sculpture that is like no other known geometrical solid but which, when observed from two perpendicular directions LOOKS JUST LIKE A CUBE, A PYRAMID OR ANOTHER KNOWN OR ABSURD SOLID. This means that three observers in three different points would see three different solids.”

Guido Moretti

Guido Moretti has just finished this year’s exclusively designed trophies:

They change shape when you rotate them…!

See Moretti working on all the different stages of the 2007 trophies’ creation

“Three-bar Cube” (2006 first prize) from 3 different views: