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Male figure
An ancestor of mine, The Ancestors Series.
Studio for the Olivetti showroom in New York
The meditation room
New York
The pergola-village, vined Orani
Sketch for the Mutual of Hartford Insurance Company
Sketch of the Monument to the mason of Orani (building blocks series)
Beach
Seneca
The Unbelievable City
Beach
Bed
Due figure
Argia dancer
Male figure
An ancestor of mine, The Ancestors Series.
Studio for the Olivetti showroom in New York
The meditation room
New York
The pergola-village, vined Orani
Sketch for the Mutual of Hartford Insurance Company
Sketch of the Monument to the mason of Orani (building blocks series)
Beach
Seneca
The Unbelievable City
Beach
Bed
Due figure
Argia dancer

Bed

Costantino Nivola

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Nivola Museum

Nivola Museum

Via Gonare, 2 (Museo Nivola), Orani

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At the beginning of the 1960s, Nivola began to use terracotta to create small-sized works, seen as a totally free form of expression, an alternative to the rigor required by public works, subject to the will of the clients and the need for architecture. The Beds, inspired by Etruscan sarcophagi, symbolize, by extension, the totality of man's existence: the life of a couple in all its variations, moments of solitude, happiness and despair. Nivola exhibits them on white bases covered with wheat sprouts, a symbol of rebirth traditionally used in Sardinia in the rites of Holy Week. From the microcosm of the Beds, we pass with the Beaches to the macrocosm of nature: Nivola with a few gestures outlines seascapes in which small figures rest on the beach or swim towards the horizon.
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Title: Bed

Author: Costantino Nivola

Date: 1965-72

Technique: Terracotta

Displayed in: Nivola Museum

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