Hope/Peace
-ON DISPLAY NOW-
Big Art Loop is fiscally sponsored by Five Ton Crane. Please indicate that your gift is for Big Art Loop.
Hope/Peace by Berkeley artist Giuseppe Palumbo presents two sculpted hands, each forming a universally recognized gesture. Simple and immediate, the forms communicate across distance, language, and background, offering a shared visual language that is both instinctive and deeply human.
Shaped by hand rather than digital process, the sculptures carry the presence of the artist’s touch. They emphasize the power of gesture as a form of communication, where meaning is felt as much as it is seen.
Positioned along the Embarcadero on Big Art Loop - Portside, Hope/Peace enters into dialogue with the movement of the waterfront and the diversity of the city. The paired forms suggest duality and balance, holding space for both reflection and possibility.
Palumbo’s work explores themes of connection, symbolism, and the human condition, using form as a language that extends beyond words. In this piece, the gestures stand as quiet but enduring reminders of what we can choose to embody, individually and together.
Artist Statement
Through my sculptures I create a visual method of communication that Is deeply felt, intuitive and expansive beyond words.
As narratives, the sculptures may explore concepts of duality, acknowledging light and shadow. Others depict beauty and proportion found throughout nature as a higher essence of being and oneness. Some pieces probe timeless questions of humanity through contemporary interpretation of myth, metaphor and social commentary.
Levity is utilized as a tonic and protest for the paradoxes of the human condition.
— Giuseppe Palumbo
