Montezuma, Fontana, Mirko: la scultura in mosaico dalle origini a oggi = Montezuma, Fontana, Mirko : mosaic sculpture from its origins to the present

This book is an unprecedented documentation of the relation between sculpture and mosaic, its birth and evolution. It explores the different application of the concept of "tesserae" by sculptors beginning in the 1930s, when Lucio Fontana and Mirko Basaldella first embarked upon their resea...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Panzetta, Alfonso 1958- (HerausgeberIn), Torcellini, Daniele (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Italienisch
Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cinisello Balsamo SilvanaEditoriale [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:This book is an unprecedented documentation of the relation between sculpture and mosaic, its birth and evolution. It explores the different application of the concept of "tesserae" by sculptors beginning in the 1930s, when Lucio Fontana and Mirko Basaldella first embarked upon their research on mosaic and the plastic arts. The peculiar creative process behind their creations was inspired by primitive Mesoamerican sculptures decorated with mosaics, viewed by the two artists in different times and places, also due to the growing interest in ancient Latin American art that was felt in Italy from the 1920s onwards. While Fontana and Mirko may be defined the "forerunners" of the happy union between sculpture and mosaic in the 1960s and 1970s, in the following decades it is Nane Zavagno and Riccardo Licata who define the main research trends - the former, especially for that which regards the use of "untraditional" materials, and the latter for the use of mosaic tesserae in contemporary art. Ultimately, from the second half of the 1980s to the present, research and artistic production multiplies with varying and peculiar results - also thanks to some works of international relevance made in Ravenna, such as the tomb of Rudolf Nureyev in Paris. Hence the "sculpture and mosaic" phenomenon witnesses a surge forwards with artists from all over the world who employ it in increasingly innovative and unexpected ways, consolidating the perception that mosaic sculpture has by now become an independent art form
Umfang:287 Seiten
ISBN:9788836638062