A 12 quintal granite stone on which Adriano Balloi had applied a steel shield with the four Moors depicted. Temporarily, from today, the work of the entrepreneur-artist, who died tragically on December 16, 2021 at the age of 61, is on display in the courtyard of the Municipality of Girasole .
Thus the will of his sons, Roberto and Alessio, was fulfilled. «They - said the mayor of Girasole, Lodovico Piras - inherited their father's industriousness and we appreciate their gesture of temporarily allocating the work to the town square. In the future we would like to dedicate a traveling museum to the artist. That would be a fitting tribute. In the meantime, on behalf of the community, we thank you for the concession of the work».
At the delivery, which took place in the late afternoon today, in addition to the entrepreneur's two heirs, the mayor himself and the councilor for public works, Gianluca Congiu, were present.
Adriano Balloi had died in the Brotzu hospital in Cagliari where he had been transferred by helicopter after being crushed under his excavator . Internal bleeding had been fatal to him, caused by the injuries that the mechanical vehicle had caused him under the weight of which he had been stuck for over ten hours in his own land on the outskirts of Tortolì.
