Technical data

Material: Carved Carrara marble
Finish: manual finishing and polishing
Dimensions: height 28 cm × 11.5 × 10.5 cm (11.02 in)
Weight: 6 kg (13.23 lb)

Production: made in Italy

Limited edition of three copies, signed and certified

Fragment of Venus is an original contemporary sculpture by the Italian artist Nino Fedele, conceived as a critical and poetic reinterpretation of the famous Venus de Milo, the ancient masterpiece found on the island of Milo and universally recognized as one of the supreme paradigms of classical beauty.

Carved in authentic Carrara marble, sourced from the historic quarries that have fueled the language of sculpture from antiquity to the present, the work combines formal rigor, material memory, and modern sensitivity.
Produced in Italy by Museum Shop, it is intended for collectors, galleries, exhibition contexts, and interior design environments seeking a presence of museum-level quality.

A dialogue with the unsurpassable

The sculpture engages with the very idea of the classical canon, recognizing its almost unattainable perfection, a perfection hardly surpassable except through minimal and conceptually targeted interventions.

Fedele does not attempt to overturn the ancient model.
Rather, it reflects on it.

By isolating a fragment of the body and removing it from the original unity of the figure, the artist introduces a silent but decisive deviation: a refined differentiation between the drapery and the flesh.

The drapery appears rough, irregular, vibrant.
The skin is smooth, luminous, ideal.

The emotional and theoretical core of the work lies in this opposition.

Continuity and deviation

It is precisely in the dialectic between fidelity and distance, between inherited integrity and selective fragmentation, that Fragment of Venus finds its contemporary voice.

Classical beauty is not denied.
It is evoked and reaffirmed in its essence.

The work suggests that the ancient can be present today only through a subtle shift, through variation, not rupture; through detail, not revolution.

The fragment as a condition of the present

From this awareness emerges a discreet but evident lucidity: the modern artist confronts a model whose authority appears definitive.

The impossibility of overcoming it does not produce sterile renunciation, but critical tension.

The limit becomes the necessary ground of creation.

Fragment and material contrast are therefore not stylistic devices; they are strategies.
They allow art to exist after perfection.

In this sense, sculpture transforms distance into language, absence into form, admiration into method.

A place in the history of thought

This position resonates with a decisive theoretical tradition.

It recalls Winckelmann, who identified in Greek art the ideal of noble simplicity and quiet grandeur, setting an absolute horizon that later eras could contemplate but not surpass.

It meets Nietzsche, for whom classicism represents an unrepeatable moment, leaving modernity suspended between nostalgia and disenchantment. Once the Apollonian world is lost, beauty can survive only as aesthetic memory.

It approaches Adorno, who recognizes that modern art, deprived of totality, must speak through fracture, limit, incompleteness.

Within this constellation, Fragment of Venus does not compete with the ancient.
It testifies to its presence.

Memory, echo, survival

The smooth skin and the rough drapery become signs of a beauty that continues to live in differential form.
What remains is not the whole, but the vibration of the whole.

The sculpture thus inhabits a territory where reverence and melancholy coincide, where the present acknowledges its debt to history and at the same time its impossibility to dissolve it.

Edition and uniqueness

The work is produced in a limited edition of three pieces, each signed by Nino Fedele and accompanied by certification issued by Museum Shop.

Each piece must, however, be considered unique.
The grain of Carrara marble, together with the manual processing and finishing, guarantees subtle and unrepeatable differences between one piece and another.

Destination

By scale and material authority, Fragment of Venus finds a natural placement in:

• art collections

• galleries

• exhibition projects

• architectural interiors

• spaces dedicated to the dialogue between classical heritage and contemporary sensibility

It is conceived as a bridge between eras, between permanence and reinterpretation.

Technical data

Material: authentic Carrara marble
Finish: hand-finished and polished
Dimensions: 28 × 11.5 × 10.5 cm
Weight: 6 kg

Production: made in Italy

Edition: limited to three copies, signed and certified