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What's inside a sphere? A world, perhaps magical, perhaps beautiful and incorruptible. For the ancients it was a symbol of perfection as it was always equal to itself closed and finished. The earth and celestial bodies are spherical and the sphere is the only geometric solid that is the same wherever you look at it. A perfect form, in short, of absolute regularity and full of mystery that has fascinated thinkers, philosophers and artists. For Albert Einstein the universe has the shape of a sphere, but in some writings the great physicist expresses the possibility that within a sphere communication “portals” between two different universes can be created. The artist MC Escher also plays with the possibility of intuiting and representing an infinite world in a finite space. The illustration Hand with reflective sphere represents not only the artist and his hand but the world around him in a wider way than what would be possible in reality and suggests the possibility of evoking simultaneous worlds. Representing the spheres to break them and dissolve their formal perfection is a game shared by sculptors such as Lucio Fontana and Arnaldo Pomodoro who, through the cracks of the spherical surfaces, communicate the internal space with the external one. In more recent times, Anish Kapoor with the Tall Tree and the Eye sculpture composed of 76 mirror spheres, creates a 'sort of eye that reflects endless images'.
The sphere, an enigmatic and secret object, is also delicate and light when it becomes a bubble and even stimulating and fun when it expresses itself in the perlage of a wine and turns into a tantalizing pleasure when it tickles the palate, transforming itself into a cascade of bubbles.