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Montezuma Fontana - Mirko (Italian, English, Paperback)
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Montezuma Fontana - Mirko (Italian, English, Paperback)
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This book is an unprecedented documentation of the relationship
between sculpture and mosaic, its birth and evolution. This book
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,
and also by the growing interest in ancient Latin American art that
was felt in Italy from the 1920s onwards. While Fontana and Mirko
may be defined as 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 set 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. Subsequently, the art of
mosaic sculpture unfolds following all of the main expressive moods
of 20th and 21st century sculpture - iconic or aniconic, poetics or
narrative, symbolic or conceptual - intensifying and emerging as a
'specific genre' at the close of the 1970s thanks to works by
Antonio Trotta, Athos Ongaro and the Transavantgarde movement of
Chia and Paladino. 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. Text in English and Italian.
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