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An ancestor of mine, The Ancestors Series.
Studio for the Olivetti showroom in New York
The meditation room
New York
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Sketch for the Mutual of Hartford Insurance Company
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Beach
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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

The Unbelievable City

Costantino Nivola

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Nivola Museum

Nivola Museum

Via Gonare, 2 (Museo Nivola), Orani

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Starting in 1974, Nivola returned to painting with a series of paintings that revisit the American urban landscape, especially New York (the previous versions of the theme were from the early 1940s). They are works that capture the magical vitality and at the same time the nervous and chaotic quality of the city. I am determined - he writes - to put everything I know and understand about the subject, the art of painting and the discipline of seeing into a series of paintings. It will be hard work, not joyful work but a sad, objective, truthful approach to a ruthless, realistic city ”. Passers-by, cars, the old New York of brick buildings, skyscrapers of glass and steel merge, rendered through a thick and regular sign that becomes almost abstract.
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Title: The Unbelievable City

Author: Costantino Nivola

Date: 1979

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Nivola Museum

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