Italia d'oro (Golden Italy).
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Title |
Italia d'oro (Golden Italy). |
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Alternative Title |
Italia d'Oro (Golden Italy). |
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Creator |
Fabro, Luciano (Italian sculptor, conceptual artist, and writer, 1936-2007) |
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Date |
1971 |
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Cultural Context |
European
Italian |
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Style/Period |
Conceptual
Arte Povera |
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Subject |
Maps
Industrialization
Industry
Economic & social conditions
Industrial arbitration
Social classes
Wealth
Poverty
Economic & industrial aspects |
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Description |
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural installations in which large 'feet' or 'claws', often in glass or polished metal, functioned as the bases for free-standing fabric 'stockings', frequently made of silk. Fabro may have been commenting obliquely on the Italians' well-known predilection for elegant and expensive clothing." (Caption, p.170); "It is important […] to see Arte Povera as reflecting a set of specifically Italian circumstances. Between 1967 and 1969 confrontations in Italy between students and police were far more numerous and violent than those in France. In late 1968 the chaos was compounded by protracted industrial disputes. Terrorist bombings by groups such as the Red Brigades punctuated the early 1970s. Amid such events Arte Povera's forms gain a particular poignancy. Motifs and materials connoting a rich cultural heritage were often juxtaposed with objects suggestive of social disparity or hardship. […] A particularly suggestive image is Luciano Fabro's Golden Italy of 1971, one of a series of hanging sculptures representing a map of Italy hung upside down by its 'leg', like a carcass. Industrial expansion in the wealthy north of Italy had seen mass migration from the poorer south in the 1960s, reinforcing the traditional polarization of the country's two halves. Fabro's work in gilded bronze seems, symbolically, to reverse regional fates. […] Fabro's Golden Italy, with its suggestions of a transmutation from base matter into gold, has thematic links with Jannis Kounellis's alchemical imagery." (Excerpt, pp. 170-171) |
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Location Depicted |
Italy |
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Material |
Bronze (metal)
Metal |
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Technique |
Sculpting
Metalworking
Gilding
Casting (process) |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Bronzes (objects)
Metalwork |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.170, fig.86) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-44.jpg |
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