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For many years, Roberto Almagno's mastery with wood produced works of a classical simplicity that in some way recalled the timelessness and purity we find in Brancusi. The artist's preoccupations have always been concerned with lightness and a seemingly impossible precarious balance. His dream was to see his works suspended in space as totally free spirits. Almagno’s most renowned piece being a 24 metre installation shown in the Palazzo Venezia Museum in Rome (2006) where 7 metre sculptures appeared to be like animals flying in the air; this sense of an almost unreal experience was …