Avanti

Avanti is a sculpture made up of a succession of six small bronze ankle boots, realised in lost-wax cast bronze.

‘Avanti’ means ‘let’s go’ in Italian. This tiny family of lace-up boots energetically and joyfully invites the person who spotted them under the door to move along.

“Subtly tucked under the Turin-style flying door of the State Bedroom from the baroque Palais Lascaris, it indicates an escape.

The symbol of the shoe, the change of scale, the evocation of animated movement and the personification of the door all hark back to the world of fairy tales and lead us to the State Bedroom.”

Text by Rebecca François