MEDUSA

design worked on Harley-Davidson Softail

The Vintage Baroque 3 design is characterised by a strong expressive and decorative aesthetic value and it’s able to elevate the object to an elegant, virtuous and refined jewel in baroque connotations.

The floral forms of seventeenth-century art, interpreted in the typical decorations of which art nouveau is rich, are coupled with the sharp lines of the “scallops” which give a smooth “vintage taste” and enhance the shape of the artwork.

Emerging from the background, thanks to a spatial overlay created by a elaborate floral interlacing, the symbolic ornamental lines of the main motif. The sinuous and lively line features every detail and permeates the surface and the absence of symmetry, increasing the feeling of movement and inner vitality. Every golden stem performs a series of curves and, at the same time generates, leaves, buds and more smaller stems in a measured ornamental exuberance.

It’s wanted the contrast between two opposing figurative expressions: the first is an incarnation, through open biomorph lines, recalls the highly evocative elements of the nature rich of empathy; the other is opposed until the abstraction with the elegance of geometric shapes and closed lines, accentuated by the light that penetrates and spreads from the surrounding golden spaces.

The complete set, consisting of five original Harley Davidson pieces, was entirely laminated in gold leaf.

The glossiness of gold is brought here with extreme elegance to the intense colors of bronze, in contrast to the brilliance of mother-of-pearl powder, overlaid in transparency to the noble metal. The expressive liveliness is underlined by discrete red shapes that characterize and burst, without excess, the elegant monochromatic composition.

To further enrich the pictorial work there is the bas-relief depicting the mythological Medusa.

The two sculptural elements are integrated on the tank and on the rear fender, designed and realized with the 3D prototyping technique, stand out thanks to the gloss of the gold leaf, offering aesthetic of great visual impact and enhancing the formal opulence of the artistic work.