Roveto Ardente
150 x 300 x 500 cm
Executed in: 2000
Inclusion in the Church of San Antonio in Sestri Levante
By Synthesis of classicity and modernity – Valerio P. Cremolini
[…] The holy theme is also weighty and is faced as a chance of responsability: the artist, combining volumes with spaces, finds in light the ideal and irreplaceable ally to his work. Spirit takes place in substance and frees extraordinary and peaceful feelings towars the Absolute.These feelings are noticed in works like Il roveto ardente (The Burning Bush), in S. Antonio church in Sestri Levante; the work is gifted with energy and ruled by a conscious broad-mindedness to faith. The sculptor lets the materials represent slender and flowing agreements, begotten by pondered composite forms, aiming at affirming both the christian message and the truths of the creation. […]
By Leonardo Lustig Sculpture inside – Valerio Grimaldi
[…] The yearning for a new spirituality, for the supernatural leaving behind the physical dimension of man and of his body as material and setting free his conscious identity, is the flash which released another important achievement of Lustig’s: the Roveto ardente (Burning Bush) – The imposing work stands out with its leavening interlacement and darting, involving drives, on the presbytery of S. Antonio’s in Sestri Levante. Just like for the “Resurrezione” (Resurrection) by Pericle Fazzini in the Nervi’s Hall in Vatican, the thick, tangled web of rough, dried up, semiabstract forms following the rippling tangle of the bush, go along with an upward movement made of shooting forms in the space where the transcentet aspect of the image unfolds the evocative fascination of the material […]
By Leonardo Lustig: a Hellenistic presence in contemporary sculpture – Franco Ragazzi
[…]Although Leonardo Lustig is a solidly figurative artist, he has the ability to reach absolute and extraordinary visionary results when he is asked to measure himself against themes that force him to go beyond the threshold of naturalism and objectivity. In the great sculpture Il roveto ardente (The Burning Bush), carved in 2000 for the high altar of the parish church of Sant’Antonio in Sestri Levante, the artist achieves an extraordinary strength of imagination. A figurative artist would have described the Holy Scriptures, depicting, without hesitation, along with the flames that do not burn the bush, also the Angel of the Lord, Moses and the flock of Jethro. Instead, for the presbytery of the Sestri church, Lustig – who has always been interested in the search for the expressive elements of spirituality and the sacred theme – has carried out a sculptural work which has reproduced the grace of a visionary art whose creativity is able to transfigure the contingency of the artist’s time, thus confirming his total belonging to the contemporary period. […]
