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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

An ancestor of mine, The Ancestors Series.

Costantino Nivola

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Nivola Museum

Nivola Museum

Via Gonare, 2 (Museo Nivola), Orani

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In the early 1950s Nivola began to make a series of cut sheet figures, the Ancestors, with a technique partly suggested by the sculpture of his friend Alexander Calder. The first known example, the large female form exhibited here, was made in Sardinia during a trip in 1952. Subsequently, the artist returned to the theme several times, creating among other things in 1957-58 a group of figures as decoration of a department store, Carr's Department Store in West Orange, New Jersey. Placed on the facade of the building, the metal sheets are associated by Nivola with the clamor and animation of commerce and modern life.
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Title: An ancestor of mine, The Ancestors Series.

Author: Costantino Nivola

Date: 1950-60

Technique: Brass sheet

Displayed in: Nivola Museum

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