Small Lime Wooden Ark

About the Item

Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Small Lime Wooden Ark year 1974 cm 11 x 43 x 30 work conceived and performed by Maestro Giuseppe Rivadossi Archetypal image of great beauty reflecting both the thought that one of the Master's most cherished themes. The Ark, biblical boat built on the instructions of Noah, apt to save and preserve the human species and all living things, is one of Giuseppe Rivadossi's favorite themes. Its "Arches" have cozy shapes, are custodians of life, cradling it, they summon ancestral seeds ready to sprout by bursting forth the vitality they contain...or perhaps spaceships to save humanity and take them to safer places. Reference bibliography Giorgio Cortenova, Giuseppe Rivadossi "The Keeper of Time." Giuseppe Rivadossi, Electa Editrice 1980 Milan Giuseppe Rivadossi Having inherited an interest in art from his father Clement, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the 1960s, approaching the study of furniture and of woodcarving, plaster, terracotta and bronze. Multiple materials are thus used in his achievements, always inspired by man, his values and and his "living. Giuseppe Rivadossi says: I have seen woodworking since I was a child. Until the 1960s," where I now live, the man-man, man-nature relationship was still based on an ancient ethic. Then industry came, and with it the looting began. The hope for a less harsh life soon turned into a bitter realization. The new technology that was only supposed to be a more improved tool turned out to be a tool of frustration and general disruption. In this situation, I feel more and more deeply the need to express that underlying sense of unity in existence, as a basic idea not to be lost or to be found at all costs every day and in everything. Now these images, these sculptures, and this furniture arise from the depths of my experience as a song, of that hope and the only alternative that lies before us rather than of nostalgia for the past. Giuseppe Rivadossi

Creator:

Giuseppe Rivadossi (Author)

Dimensions:

Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 43 in (109.22 cm)Depth: 30 in (76.2 cm)

Style:

Other (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Wood,Hand-Carved,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1970-1979