Andrea Mastrovito's 'Agnus Dei' Sculpture Crowns Sagrada Familia

Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito (Bergamo, 1978) has created 'Agnus Dei', a sculpture installed at the highest point of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, now completed. The work, made of thousands of glass shards symbolizing Christ's suffering, is set within luminous rays forming a hyperboloid and sits atop the cathedral's tallest tower at 172 meters. Mastrovito, based in New York, is known for his drawings, sculptures, and the animated film 'Nysferatu' (35,000 drawings). He has extensive experience with sacred architecture, having created stained glass for Bergamo's Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, engravings for the Santuario della Madonna della Guardia in Tortona, and a monumental wood inlay cycle for the Foyer Catholique Européen in Brussels. A video by Marco Marcassoli features commentary from artist Stefano Arienti, GAMeC director Lorenzo Giusti, curator Ilaria Bernardi, and Afterclass director Nicola Ricciardi, discussing Mastrovito's materiality, drawing-centered practice, use of rulers as paradox, and concept of 'expanded drawing'.