The work in the collection, L'amore, suggests from the title the aspiration of the sculpture to those that are properly human feelings: based on the purity of the elements that compose it, in silent dialogue with each other, the work contains an allusive sensuality, thanks to which the abstract forms acquire an unexpected corporeality. As in many of Melotti's other works, light plays a crucial role in animating and transforming surfaces, becoming the junction point between idea and matter, rationality and imagination, visible and invisible, process and final outcome. In 1971, the same year in which the work was created, Italo Calvino wrote about Melotti's work in the book The restless space, underlining the vibrant immobility of his sculptures, an expression that also perfectly describes Love as a combination of ideal aspiration and tension. vital. The linguistic versatility of Melotti and his multifaceted activity were at the center of the anthological exhibition that the Madre museum dedicated to the artist in 2011.
