The sovereign II Rare epoxy resin model for the monumental sculpture exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1972 46x27x20cm "And if Delfino resorted to the anamorphosis to pass from the object-sign to a mythical to a mythical story for our contemporary era? Visionary, then? With regard to his recent and future sculptures, he appears as the one who creates the man of tomorrow supplanting the one of today, that we will look at as the vestige of our disappeared civilization. What else does this character tell us, a masked clone, covered with pipes, emerging from a magma suggesting at the same time the vegetable, the mineral, an animal caught in meanders from which springs an anthropomorphic human figure victim of its own scientific experiments become unidentifiable and in that monstrous? This Scaphandrier des ténèbres (diver of darkness), full of threats and mystery, embodies a vital force. This one animates the funereal and splendid matter of this black and lightless universe. Symbolism, allied to expressionism, identifies a theater of questioning fertile in elegant finds in the ignorance of the monsters that they generate. The Night with spread wings triggers a fatal movement, reversible in that it evokes an ascending rhythm. Or is it a tree like a gallows that is associated with figures whose form evokes a giant, a helmeted, caparisoned astronaut, surrounded by vines, erotic plants, whose acrylic resin cast on mouldings manages to simulate the fantastic physiology of deities linked to natural forces? Anyway the language of the sculptor is resolutely voluptuous "