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Nicolò Quirico
Nothing will work unless you do (Louvre, Abu Dhabi)

2021

About the Item

In between picture and painting, Nicolò Quirico's works are photographic prints on a collage of vintage book pages. 
Photographs are not printed on white paper as usual but on sheets of old books, so that fragments of sentences, sequences of short stories and opening words of novels overlap with architectural elements by creating not random references – though sometimes cryptic or mysterious – because the books were chosen by the author so to create a harmony with the subjects portrayed. This work compares the antiquity of a Greek statue with the new structure of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi
  • Creator:
    Nicolò Quirico (1966, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 51.19 in (130 cm)Width: 51.19 in (130 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Milano, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1922210235882
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