Safety Net is a memorial for David Blakeslee, Giusti’s friend, who took his life in 1992. It’s a collection of drawings, sculptures, photograms and installation works.
It was shown in different locations such as St. Mary’s Cathedral (Limerick) for the Irish biannual EV+A 1998, St. John The Divine Cathedral (NYC) in 1999 and Nikolai Fine Art.
These pieces feature dozens of small skeletons made with different materials like bronze (at Nikolai), paper (Saint John) who seems weaving.
Giusti’s desire to render death in the image of beauty reveals a romantic sensibility fueled by faith in trascendent possibility to bring order to chaos through arts.
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