22/10/20 - In the place where graffiti artists gave birth to a tourist destination, we find ourselves entering a warehouse turned white cube, which houses the Margulies collection. It's Wynwood Walls, in Miami, and the grey building with a sign that reads The Margulies Collection receives us with perfect temperature (outside, although we are in the middle of Fall, humidity renders the heat insufferable). In the first gallery we are greeted by three real-size figures seated on a bench. The sculpture belongs to George Segal (USA, 1924-2000), who made it by working with fabric covered in cast. The ghostly shapes, when observed up close, reveal minimum details, not only physical, but in their expressions, suggesting a strong melancholy.

Segal used this technique directly on the body of his models, achieving maximum realism. "The  bandages are a healing instrument that become a metaphor of the fragility of life," he explained. 

Three people on four benches symbolizes three anonymous beings on a found urban object, representing any of us.

Three People on Four Benches, by George Segal (1980)

Technique: bronze and steel