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Spiritelli Sculptures Collection by Alchimia
Price:$2,439.73
$2,992.14List Price
About the Item
- Creator:George Sowden (Artist),Alessandro Mendini (Artist),Mimmo Paladino (Artist),Alessandro Guerriero (Artist),Allen Jones (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 13.39 in (34 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1980-1989
- Date of Manufacture:1989
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2140317822522
Allen Jones
British Pop artist Allen Jones is no stranger to controversy. In 1970, his group of erotic life-sized fiberglass sculptures Hatstand, Table and Chair — sexually suggestive hyperrealistic models of women transformed into pieces of furniture — made headlines, provoked outrage and was met with intense scrutiny by art critics. Despite the condemnation — or perhaps partly owing to it — his work has sold for millions of dollars at auction, and while Jones’s figurative paintings, prints and sculptures have courted negative publicity, there is no question that his work is provocative and coveted by some collectors.
Born in Southampton in 1937, Jones attended the Royal College of Art alongside classmates R. B. Kitaj and David Hockney. While the school expelled Jones after one year, his work was included in the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition of 1961 — regarded as the birth of the British Pop art movement. Then, in 1963, Jones won the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale.
After moving to New York in 1964, Jones began experimenting with sexual imagery and erotic figures. He endeavored to explore complex relationships between men and women, and placed a specific focus on the female form in his nude sculptures and abstract paintings. While the era gave way to works by Jones that were especially sexually charged, his body of work also came to include colorful lithographic prints that drew on fashion design and cabaret.
Jones’s works have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.K., Europe and elsewhere around the world, including shows in London, Zurich, Lisbon, Hong Kong, Shanghai and St. Louis. In 2015, the Royal College of Art staged a large retrospective of his work. Jones’s pieces are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Alessandro Guerriero
Alessandro Guerriero is an Italian artist, architect and curator. In 1976, he founded Alchimia Studio - one of the most important groups devoted to the post-avant-garde in Italy. In 1982, Guerriero was awarded the “Compasso d'Oro” for his design research. Later, in 1987, he founded Domus Academy, a post-graduate industrial design and fashion design school. His best-known work is the new Benetton Museum, designed with Oliviero Toscani. He has recently designed a small city near Rome for the Alessi Family.
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