For the months of July and August, the Hubbard Memorial Library will host the sculpture Solar Reflective Movement by local sculptor Brendan Livio Stecchini. From the sculptor, “‘Solar Reflective Movement’ uses wind and solar power, vital renewable energies. It is a dynamic visual poem that celebrates and models the vital energies of the near future. Movements of sparkling light, moved by the currents of the wind, dancing and swirling around and within the sculpture.”
The piece itself stands 9.5 feet tall, 2 feet in diameter at the top, and 5 feet by 5 feet at the bottom. The crown at the top has 12 mirrors attached. From the crown hangs 6 strings with 9 double-sided mirrors on each string.
Come check out this cool piece of local art!
About the sculptor:
Brendan Livio Stecchini was born in Chicago, grew up in Princeton, N.J., and went to Hofstra University for a B.A. in Humanities. He has resided in Western Massachusetts since 1972 when he enrolled in the Masters of Fine Art degree in the Sculpture Program at UMass Amherst. Through the years, while still working on his art, Brendan was employed in an iron foundry, scrap metals yard as a truck driver and crane operator, as an arts administrator, and finally, for ten years as a public school math teaching specialist for grades 1-8 in Holyoke, MA.
Brendan is now retired and living in Belchertown for the last 25 years and still activitely producing artworks. Throughout all these years, he has had numerous art exhibitions and awards in painting, sculpture, created art performances, events and happenings. For the last three decades public, kinetic, interactive sculpture has been his primary focus, having installations and commissions in cities, parks, museums and colleges.
Brendan is always striving to make sculpture that is playful, meaningful, insightful, and accessible to young and old with or without established art experience.